If there’s one Browning-designed Winchester lever action that can rival the Model 94 in terms of sheer popularity, it’d be the slightly earlier Model 92. As great as the Model 94 was—and, of course, is—the short throw and greased-glass action of the original Model 1892, which is a direct descendant of Browning’s larger 1886, kept it alive all the way to 1945. The original run of Model 92s numbered 1,007,608 rifles.
While the 94 was chambered the .30-30 Win. and .32 Spl., Model 92 calibers included .218 Bee, .25-20, .32-20, 38-40 and, of course, the iconic .44-40.
The Model 92 served as a wildly popular, yet chronologically incorrect, stand-in for other Winchesters in countless Western movies and TV shows. The most notable examples were the big-loop Model 92 of “The…
