Like so many other successful rifles and shotguns, the Winchester Model 94 rifle was designed by John M. Browning who sold his Model 94 patent (No. 524702 of August 1894) to Winchester.

The Model 94 has always been and always will be associated with the .30/30, also knows at the .30 Winchester Center Fire, or W.C.F. Dave Hurteau The Model 94, for all its different chamberings ...