Hello, Billy -
You are fortunate in that the Winchester firearms company provides a list of firearms manufacture dates and serial numbers.
This is the link to the Winchester Repeating Arms company home page:
http://www.winchesterguns.com/You will see the Support link near the upper right of the home page: Choose that and then look for the Frequently Asked Questions link:
http://www.winchesterguns.com/support/faq.htmlOn the FAQs page, scroll down to #8, "What year was my Winchester manufactured? Click or tap on that link.
You will be taken to a web page with the heading:
Winchester Firearms Manufacturing Dates by Serial Number and Year; 1866 through the early 1990s.
Scroll down that page until you see an image with typed columns. Click or tap on that.
You will then be taken to a PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader - free software) document which you can search through to find the year your firearm was manufactured.
On the first page of the PDF document, you will find toll free phone numbers you can choose to call for additional information.
The lists for the Model 94 (1894) begin on page 9 of the PDF document.
Best wishes.
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