Right about the time the Winchester plant in Connecticut was closing down, everyone was out looking to buy Winchester made model 94's.
My dad called me from Arizona, he said, "you got to find me a 94, I can't find one anywhere". I didn't know what he was talking about. he said, you know a Winchester lever gun.
He hunted deer with them when he was a kid.
I found one at a gun store about 100 miles away. List price was $491 on line. They were asking $625 and had two left. I bought it.
I delivered it to him, he looked at it, put it in his gun safe. That was that. I don't think he ever fired it. Dad's gone now and I got the rifle. It burned in the fire.
The Winchester model 94 is now made in Japan. List price is $1,919.
Wow.
I'd like to find a sweet pre-64, 30-30 myself.