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Offline 6Shooter

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No more 30-30's?
« on: March 21, 2006, 08:57:43 AM »
I was told today Winchester has stopped making their model 94 30-30's.
 I knew the model 70 bolt actions were gone and that is bad enough but the 30-30!
   Say it ain't so!

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No more 30-30's?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2006, 01:03:43 PM »
You heard right, no more Model 94s, at least for now. That's the bad news, the good news is that the Marlin 336 in good old 30-30 is readily available.

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No more 30-30's?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2006, 10:11:20 AM »
From what I hear, the company (FN ??  - some European company)  that leases the "Winchester" name, and makes "Winchesters" closed down the one and only plant making the regular M94s & M70s.  So those rifles aren't being made, until something is worked out.

I  believe the Miroku folks in Japan can still make the special M92s.

I hope someone starts making M94s again.  This year's catalog had several takedowns I was drooling over.   And a good Winchester M92 woiuld be really sweet - although the EMF M92 clones are very good when worked over by a gunsmith specializing in them.
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No more 30-30's?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2006, 08:14:34 PM »
Not to mention the fact that there are at least 7 million of them out there already.
Hardly a rare item though prices are now double what they were a month ago for used ones.
Then there is always Marlin.
A better rifle in the 1st place.

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No more 30-30's?
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2006, 03:12:09 PM »
It is all true , no more M94 or m70, or m1300 scatterguns either. I think ammo is still going to be available, I hope so anyway , all i shoot out of my 44 raging bull is their excellent 240 gr partition gold. about the 30/30 though, the marlin 336 is a better rifle, just my 2 cents, good hunting!
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