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Interesting, but confusing, comment from Browning.
The sintered receivers were originally made by the "old" Winchester company.
In the early 1980s the Winchester rifle operation was sold off & licensed to US Repeating Arms Company, which returned the receivers to forged steel.
USRAC was eventually bought by the Belgian FN combine that shut that plant down in 2006.
On behalf of FN, Browning (also owned by FN) acquired the licensing rights to the Winchester brand on the last go-round.
Winchesters are currently made in several locations, the '94 is done in Japan now.
There is no "Winchester" factory & it's largely just a name on products handled by Browning.
Surprising on one hand that you'd get a "Wasn't us, dunno" response from Browning, but I suppose on the other hand they're right.
USRAC told me in 1994 that the frames were forged by 1985.
Denis
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