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PetahW · August 12, 2012, 10:52 AM

While Winchester has barreled Model 94's with stainless steel barrels (early 20th Century), they've NEVER made a Model 94 entirely of stainless steel.

What Winchester has done, however, is to finish some Carbon steel models to look like stainless steel (or pewter, or Silver).

Winchester also made a few Brushed Chrome (finish) 94 Trapper's, with synthetic stocks for a S.H.O.T. show (IIRC), sometime around 1999 - your 94AE might possibly be one of those (a call to Winchester with the SN might tell you)

Also, If a bbl is stamped "proof steel", it is not stainless steel.

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August 12, 2012, 10:52 AM	#31
PetahW Senior Member Join Date: September 19, 2008 Posts: 4,678	While Winchester has barreled Model 94's with stainless steel barrels (early 20th Century), they've NEVER made a Model 94 entirely of stainless steel. What Winchester has done, however, is to finish some Carbon steel models to look like stainless steel (or pewter, or Silver). Winchester also made a few Brushed Chrome (finish) 94 Trapper's, with synthetic stocks for a S.H.O.T. show (IIRC), sometime around 1999 - your 94AE might possibly be one of those (a call to Winchester with the SN might tell you) Also, If a bbl is stamped "proof steel", it is not stainless steel. . Last edited by PetahW; August 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM.