Saturday, January 30, 2010

1949 Winchester 94 30 WCF

This weekend is the gun show in Lynden at the fair grounds. I stopped in this morning looking for one thing and found it: a good priced old Winchester .30-30. This is a pre-1964 so it has the old style action which is stronger and smoother. Even though it's 61 years old it feels like a new action. It has been re-blued but the stock is all original. It is stamped ".30 WCF" rather then the newer ".30-30".

".30 WCF" stands for .30 Winchester Center Fire. Marlin did not want to put the name of rival Winchester on their rifles when they were chambered for the cartridge soon after its introduction so the -30 was added in place of WCF. The -30 stands for the standard load of 30 grains of early smokeless powder, which was on par with IMR/DuPont's 4064. Over time Marlin's variation on the name stuck, though ".30 WCF" is also used.




2 comments:

  1. Nice gun, love those lever action rifles.
    I just got a very old, single brake barrel 12ga shotgun today for free!

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  2. Nice! Is that the H&R? I got one of those for Laura.

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