I have another question about this gun. While inspecting it closer, I noticed that three receiver screws (hammer screw, carrier screw, and link plate screw) appear to have been ground flat on their ends to approximately fit the width of the action before they were blued. This looks to have been done...

How common is the red color in the receiver on these guns? What was the time period for the cast steel actions to when they switched back to machined out of bar stock, mine is SN 501XXXX dating to 1981 (My particular gun was one of a special run of model 94 trappers made for WACA)? I thought that th...

So as far as the red color is concerned, is it present on all of the cast steel type receiver 94s? And in terms of the barrel/mag tube polishing, have you seen many factory guns exhibiting this? I am just trying to assess whether these conditions are normal or if they are indications of someone doin...

Another thing that I noticed was that the barrel seems to be highly polished almost mirror smooth, whereas the magazine tube is not. You can feel the difference in roughness with your fingernail to some degree. I was also wondering if this was a common occurance?

Hello all, I am new to the forum and I have a couple questions. I just picked up a 1981 model 94 trapper (pre safety top eject) which I was told is nib unfired. The gun looks great except one thing I noticed while cleaning and oiling it was that the inside of the reciever appears to be a reddish col...