Go to http://oldguns.net/ and scroll down the index on the left side, click on the link to Winchester manufacture dates. Then select Model 94 and enter your serial number.
Websitehttp://armscollectors.com/sn/winlookup.php Winchester 1894/94 Serial Number List1894 began with serial number 1 and ended with 14,579.1895 ended with number 44,359.
1896 ended with number 76,464.
1897 ended with 111,453.
1898 ended with number 147,684. This is the last number that is antique according to BATF regulations.
1899 ended with number 183,371.
1900 ended with number 204,427.
1901 ended with number 233,975.
1902 ended with number 273,854.
1903 ended with number 291,506.
1904 ended with number 311,363.
1905 ended with number 337,557.
1906 ended with number 378,878.
1907 ended with number 430,985.
1908 ended with number 474,241.
1909 ended with number 505,831.
1910 ended with number 553,062.
1911 ended with number 599,263.
1912 ended with number 646,114.
1913 ended with number 703,701.
1914 ended with number 756,066.
1915 ended with number 784,052.
1916 ended with number 807,741.
1917 ended with number 821,972.
1918 ended with number 838,175.
1919 ended with number 870,762.
1920 ended with number 880,627.
1921 ended with number 908,318.
1922 ended with number 919,583.
1923 ended with number 938,539.
1924 ended with number 953,198.
1925 ended with number 978,523.
1926 ended with number 997,603.
1927 ended with number 1,027,571.
1928 ended with number 1,054,465.
1929 ended with number 1,077,097.
1930 ended with number 1,081,755.
1931 ended with number 1,084,156.
1932 ended with number 1,087,836.
1933 ended with number 1,089,270.
1934 ended with number 1,091,190.
1935 ended with number 1,099,605.
1936 ended with number 1,100,065.
1937 ended with number 1,100,679.
1938 ended with number 1,100,915.
1939 ended with number 1,101,051.
1940 ended with number 1,142,423.
1941 ended with number 1,191,307.
1942 ended with number 1,221,289.
1943 through 1947 numbers are not available. The following serial numbers assume an equal number produced each year.
1943 ended with number 1,267,741.*
1944 ended with number 1,314,193.*
1945 ended with number 1,360,645.*
1946 ended with number 1,407,097.*
1947 ended with number 1,453,549.*
1948 ended with number 1,500,000.
1949 ended with number 1,626,100.
1950 ended with number 1,724,295.
1960 ended with number 2,469,821.
1963 ended with number 2,586,000. This was the end of the classic Winchesters made with hand-finished cast parts.
Numbers 2,586,001 through 2,699,999 were not used.
1964 began with 2,700,000 and ended with 2,797,428.
1965 ended with number 2,894,428.
1966 ended with number 2,991,927.
1967 ended with number 3,088,458.
1968 ended with number 3,185,691.
1969 ended with number 3,284,570.
1970 ended with number 3,381,299.
1980 ended with number 4,892,951.
1981 ended with number 5,024,957.
1982 ended with number 5,103,248.
estimate after 1982 by adding 100,000 per year.
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Your winchester model 1894 was one of the first 500 rifles made by winchester in 1911.They made 46,200 rifles that year.
Winchester made about 28 versions of the Lever Action model 94. All were made by Winchester, all of them were rifles not guns.
The Winchester model 250 belonged to the 200 series of rifles made by Winchester from 1965-1976.Your Winchester model 250 .22cal rifle was made from 1965-1974.
A Winchester model 1894 rifle made in 1967 may be desirable to some people,but the pre-64 model of the Winchester model 1894 is more desirable to collectors.The rifles made from 1894-1941 are the most desirable rifles of this make for collectors.
Your Winchester model 1894 rifle was made in the first year of production,which was 1894.During 1894 Winchester made 14,759 rifles of this model.
With the serial number that you provided,your Winchester model 1894 rifle was made in the year 1900.Winchester made 21,055 model 1894 rifles that year.
your Winchester model 290 was made as a group of models including the 250,270,255,275 and the 290.these were made from 1963-1976,with the model 290 being the last model made.
There was 19,999 guns made in this edition by winchester.
With the serial number that you have supplied;your Winchester model 52B was made in the year 1939.It was one of 1,828 rifles made that year by Winchester.
The Winchester model 55 rifles were some one of the few rifles made by Winchest er to have serial numbers of their own,and also have them listed with the model 1894 rifle production serial numbers.Yours happens to be one of the rifles made that lists its serial number in the model 1894 range of numbers.With the serial number that you have provided,your Winchester model 55 rifle was made in the year 1928.The Winchester model 55 was made from 1926-1936,with a total production of only 20,592 rifles made.I hope this helps eliminate any confusion on this model of Winchester rifle.
model 190 and model 290 rifles were produced from 1965 to 1980, around 2,171,263 rifles .
Winchester did not keep records of the production by year of the model 77,22cal rifles.I can say that the model 77 was made from 1955-1962.Winchester made 217,000 rifles during this time span.I would say that your rifles serial number puts your rifles production in the first year which is 1955.