Its a Winchester 94 -  Rollmark on barrel simply says "-Winchester Ranger 30-30 Win.-"

Not sure when it was made.  I received it as a gift in 1995.

Has no safety, just the half-cock notch.  

Serial # is 54987XX - tried to look it up here Winchester Dates of Manufacture, but it is outside the range of the database.



It is missing the rear sight elevator and I need to make sure I order the right one.  

So, I was looking on Numrich's website and am unsure of which one of them to order - Numrich


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

From the serial number it sounds like yours is a late 1980's Angle Eject. Is the right side receiver wall lowered and is the ejector over at the lower left hand side, as opposed to being at the bottom center?

Yes, receiver wall is cut down maybe 3/16" and the ejector is on the lower left of the bolt.

You can give them a call and they might know better as pertaining to year of manufacturing.

Sounds like 5C then. I would order/call MGW as they stock Winchester Parts and are a Winchester Service Center.

Will do.

http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/CTGY/winchester-94-parts
Tel:  636-475-7300
Fax: 636-475-7303
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There's nothing magic about determining the date.  This is a resource provided by Winchester that goes up through the end of 1991.  It's in PDF format so you can save it to your hard drive or print it.  

Winchester serial numbers

The Model 94s will be found on page 9 and it indicates yours was made in 1988, the third year of Model 94 Ranger production.

Consequently, it will be an angle eject with a half cock notch, and it will not have a cross bolt safety or a tang safety.

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I agree 3C is the right elevator for a post 64 Ranger, but it does not matter on the post 64 Winchesters as they are all the same, and that's basically the case on the post WWII pre-64 winchesters as well.

However, way back in the day, Winchester used sight elevators that were regulated by caliber so that the rifle could be zeroed at 50 yards on the bottom step, with each successive step increasing the zero range by 50 yards. That gave the shooter steps for 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 yards.  It was a nice feature that required a great deal of attention to detail by Winchester and reflected the overall quality of the company in it's earlier days.

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Some key post 64 Model 94 Winchester dates to remember:

1. The Big Bore 94 was introduced in 1978 for the 1979 model year in .375 WIn and two years later in .356 Win and .307 WIn
2. The XTRs were made from 1978 through 1989.
3. In 1981 with the purchase of the Winchester plant by ISRAC, the receiver alloy was changed to 4144 steel and those rifles can be re-blued by normal means.  The alloy used from 1964 through 1981 had a high chromium content and could not be blued by conventional means.  The 1964 through 1968 receivers were blackened using the Du-lite 3-0 process, from 1968-72 they were black chrome plated, and from 1972 to mid 1981 they were plated with iron and then blued with the normal Win blue/Oxyblack process.
4. Angle eject was introduced in 1983 for the 1984 model year on the regular Model 94s
5. Angle eject for big bores came out in 1985
6. The Ranger series Model 94s were introduced in 1985 and stayed until 2007
7. The rebounding hammer appeared on the  Model 94 in 1990
8. The cross bolt safety was introduced in 1992
9. The tang safety replaced the cross bolt safety in 2002.

Interesting info on the different bluing processes. I had no idea that they changed the process so much...

Awesome!  Thanks for the info!

Nice reply with lots of information!