Winchester 94 Chevrolet Outdoorsman carbine
Official wording
Winchester, Model 94, Chevrolet Outdoorsman sets, carbines, cal. .30-30, having S/Ns between 5130000 and 5466000.
What this entry requires
- ATF REQUIRESYour firearm is this edition: Winchester 94 Chevrolet Outdoorsman carbine
- ATF REQUIRESYour serial number is one ATF listsATF: “having S/Ns between 5130000 and 5466000”
- INFOATF states no date; production was about 1983–1990.
Editorial facts · Our research
- Country
United StatesBasis: no citation - Manufacturer
- U.S. Repeating Arms Co.Basis: outside reference ¹
- Type
- RifleBasis: the ATF wording
- Action
- LeverBasis: no citation
- Caliber
- .30-30Basis: the ATF wording
- Made
- S/Ns 5130000–5466000 · c. 1983–1990production; ATF states no dateBasis: estimate ²
- Service
- Commercial
Source
- Official wording
- ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section II · PDF p. 21 ↗ · ATF original ↗
- Entries
- 1 line
- Verbatim check
- Checked against the PDF text before every release
- Editorial facts
- Confidence: Medium · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
- References
- 1. Wikipedia, “Winchester Repeating Arms Company” ↗, maker: “In December 1980, the New Haven plant was sold to its employees” and “incorporated as the U.S. Repeating Arms Company”, “granted a license to make Winchester arms”; Olin made Winchester arms until then; the New Haven plant passed to U.S. Repeating Arms in 1980–81, before the 1983 start of this serial range: U.S. Repeating Arms Co.
- 2. savage99.com ↗, years (estimate: partly supports it): Model 1894/94 serial-date table (from Pirkle and Madis; the site notes its sources "disagree a bit") ends 1982 at S/N 5103248 and answers "manufactured after 1982" above it, so ATF's lowest serial 5130000 dates to 1983 or later; the 1990 end is our estimate
- Fact tags
- ATF the ATF wording states it.
- REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
- ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
- NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition
- Corrections
- 3 changes · see below
Correction history
- Evidence passEditorial confidence: Low → Medium. Re-rated after supporting references were added or re-checked.
- Evidence passYears: 1980–1990 → 1983–1990. Savage99.com's Model 94 serial table ends 1982 at S/N 5103248, below ATF's lowest serial 5130000 (partial; end is our estimate)
- Evidence passMaker: Winchester (Olin Corp.) / U.S. Repeating Arms Co. → U.S. Repeating Arms Co.. The serial range starts after 1982 and Olin sold the plant to U.S. Repeating Arms in December 1980 (Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Wikipedia)
Historical context
Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Winchester-94-32spl noBG.png” by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Waltherppx, CC BY-SA 4.0. Retrieved October 2026.
Summary: Wikipedia, “Winchester Model 1894”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The Winchester Model 1894 rifle is a lever-action repeating rifle that became one of the most famous and popular hunting rifles of all time. It was designed by John Browning in 1894 and originally chambered in either the .32-40 Winchester or the .38-55 Winchester, two metallic black powder cartridges. It was later the first rifle to chamber the smokeless powder round, the .30 WCF in 1895. In 1901, Winchester created the new .32 Winchester Special caliber with production of rifles starting in 1902.