Model 94 Trigger Slop

[jonp]

I just bought a Sears 94 clone in 30-30. It has been quite some time since I have had a 94 and I don't remember there being quite as much slop in the trigger on my last one. The trigger hangs loose and is easily flopped back and forth whether the hammer is cocked or not. The trigger does have a crisp break to it, though.

Is this a problem that requires fixing or is this normal?

[waco]

I have a 1971 Win 94 in 30-30.....same thing.

[Tatume]

I sincerely doubt your rifle is a clone. It is much more likely to be a Winchester 94 with Sears markings.

[fecmech]

Normal for the 94

[jonp]

I sincerely doubt your rifle is a clone. It is much more likely to be a Winchester 94 with Sears markings.

Yes, what i meant is that it was made by winchester but is stamped Sears Ted Williams so is a "clone" or the same as a 94. I should have been clearer.

[jlchucker]

Winchester made those Sears Ted Williams rifles. They are pretty much nothing different except the branding, and the magazine tube is a little shorter. Some, if not all of the Ted Williams guns had a nose cap holding on the forearm, instead of the usual barrel bands found on most 94 carbines. In short, not much different except for some cosmetics. In 1969 and 1970, during the era of the old Winchester factory complex in New Haven CT I used to walk by row after row of these, and also row after row of "commemoratives" gussied up pretty much the same way.

[Tatume]

Hi JL,

Like I said, the rifle is not a clone. It is a Winchester 94.

If it said "Rossi" it would be a clone.

Take care, Tom

[jlchucker]

Hi JL,

Like I said, the rifle is not a clone. It is a Winchester 94.

If it said "Rossi" it would be a clone.

Take care, Tom

Yup, Tatum, a Winchester 94. Rossi's cloning mostly Marlins these days I thought. I've got a couple of Rossi 92's, and for clones they are OK but I think I've pretty much lost my fascination with clones these days.

Have a great day, Tom.

John

[FergusonTO35]

Yep it's sloppy, that's just how they are. The 94 trigger really responds well to stoning the sear and hammer too!

[jonp]

It has been a number of years since ive had one. Thanks for the comments.

[Ragnarok]

I remember one of my hunting buddies back in the day ridiculing the M94 Winchester for it's trigger "clack-clacking back and forth while ya' walk through the woods hunting Bambi"...this being a feature of some of the post-64 Winchester M94

[Sig556r]

Normal for the 94

+1 above...normal for TW100 (Win'94-in-disguise)

[robg]

My 94ae is like that but it's got a 2lb crisp break.

[roadie]

I just bought a Sears 94 clone in 30-30. It has been quite some time since I have had a 94 and I don't remember there being quite as much slop in the trigger on my last one. The trigger hangs loose and is easily flopped back and forth whether the hammer is cocked or not. The trigger does have a crisp break to it, though.

Is this a problem that requires fixing or is this normal?



It's using a 2 piece trigger/sear arrangment......sear stays locked to hammer, trigger flops all over. I found it annoying, so just drilled a small hole through both parts and drove in a tight pin......not something I'd recommend for anything of collector value, but I wouldn't think twice on a "common" 94.

To me, anything built after 1964 is "common".