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Offline Redie Fredie

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Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« on: May 22, 2012, 02:22:07 PM »
Did a Winchester 94AE in 356Win ever come with a straight stock(originally)? The one I am looking at has a straight stock and no cross-bolt safety. All the ones I have ever seen, pre-safety, have been Monte Carlo-Raised stocks.
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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2012, 02:08:16 AM »
Most likely.  It sounds like a Traditional Rifle - straight stock, 20" bbl.  Later on Winchester added the Black Shadow and Timber Carbine models that wore pistol grip stocks (had a bit of a downturned grip).  The Black Shadow was a plastic stock with a 1/2 mag tube and the Timber Carbine wore wood but with a 18.5" bbl.  HTH.
I think you would have to contact Winchester to see if they have any different stocks left laying around for that rifle.  If not, I'm certain that some of the links on our links page here will get you to stockmakers who can provide what you want, as long as the tang on the rifle matches the stock configuration you want. 
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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2012, 02:56:06 AM »
Quote from: Redie Fredie on May 22, 2012, 02:22:07 PM
Did a Winchester 94AE in 356Win ever come with a straight stock(originally)? The one I am looking at has a straight stock and no cross-bolt safety. All the ones I have ever seen, pre-safety, have been Monte Carlo-Raised stocks.

I've owned a straight-stocked (no MonteCarlo, aka canoe paddle stock) BigBore94AE XTR .356 - but mine had the CBS.
 
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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2012, 03:24:56 AM »
Someone could of replaced the monte carlo stocks that were standard on those big bores with a regular  94 stock.
The big bores were introduced about 10 years or more before the crossbolt safety was.
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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2012, 03:27:04 AM »
Quote from: Ranch13 on May 23, 2012, 03:24:56 AM
Someone could of replaced the monte carlo stocks that were standard on those big bores with a regular  94 stock.
The big bores were introduced about 10 years or more before the crossbolt safety was.

While it's true that the BB94 was introduced in Sept 1978 - it was a top-eject,  available only in a single chambering - .375Win.

The OP's .356 BB94 wasn't introduced, along with the .307Win chambering, until the advent of the angle-eject BB94AE in 1983 with both the canoe-paddle montecarlo and "standard" buttstocks.

IIRC, the CBS was added ca. 1988.

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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2012, 03:46:14 AM »
Ranger I don't recall the bigbores in 307 or 356 ever being available with anything but the monte carlo stocks, but they sure could of been, I sold several of them thru a mainstreet store front business at the time of their introduction.
 Still it would of been quite possible for someone to have swapped out the montecarlo stock for a standard stock with little to no problems and if someone who was half way talented tools could of used a stock blank and it probably would be a better fit than the factory original.
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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2012, 03:51:16 AM »
If its a nice rifle for a good price I would buy it the 356win is not to shabby.
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Re: Winchester 94AE 356Win with straight stock no Safety? Original
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2012, 12:07:57 PM »
I bought it.
So far what I've seen is just before going to the CB safety, Winchester changed to a straight stock. Thinking it is a rarer set-up but I don't know for sure.
Either way, nice piece.
Thanks all!
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