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Commercial Weapons => Rifles & Carbines => Pump Actions => Topic started by: Bob_The_Student on May 20, 2020, 09:20:35 PM

Title: Do I win something for being first to post in this section?
Post by: Bob_The_Student on May 20, 2020, 09:20:35 PM

I picked this up really cheap, IMO, and I just don't know what to do with it. Should I leave it as it sits (trust me I can't believe I'm asking this) or should I get it restored-ish?

It is not matching. It appears to have a partially re-blued barrel (tried to photograph). The stampings on the barrel are not crisp for the most part. Also it looks like a bulge all around the barrel just below the top of the tube. Looking down the barrel it does not appear to be bulged from within. I was thinking a squib made the bulge but I'm not seeing it. I will bore scope it if I can not sure I can go down .22 barrel, however.

It's a Winchester Mod. 90/ .22 LR/ w/ Octagon barrel.

Please give me your thoughts. I just wanted it to shoot and I knew collectibility is likely out the window, again IMO.

Here she is....


(https://i.ibb.co/fSX1jS5/IMG-1899.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xs2Cxs0)

(https://i.ibb.co/GvM9Bv1/IMG-1900.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cc8wMcp)

(https://i.ibb.co/r7jKBn9/IMG-1901.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mDjrnQp)

(https://i.ibb.co/Z83bVZP/IMG-1902.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cFPs1mH)

(https://i.ibb.co/QF0JGbh/IMG-1903.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qM6Dwyh)

(https://i.ibb.co/55p0sSF/IMG-1904.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rZ8j5zs)

(https://i.ibb.co/dBYzFgW/IMG-1905.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wymxVs0)

(https://i.ibb.co/TqVPYbX/IMG-1906.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Dgxwz8X)

(https://i.ibb.co/bNMHTJH/IMG-1907.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZcpH5mH)


SOB!!! I should've put this in the rimfire section. Damn it I guess a mod will boot me and take my prize away. See you all in the rimfire section!  chuckles1

Title: Re: Do I win something for being first to post in this section?
Post by: Ghost51xxx on May 20, 2020, 09:46:34 PM

I would be happy with it as long as it shoots and hits a pie plate at 50 yards.

Title: Re: Do I win something for being first to post in this section?
Post by: Phosphorus32 on May 20, 2020, 10:47:09 PM

These were often ridden very hard, as many were “gallery guns” at county and state fairs. I have one in 22 short with a rear sight leaf that’s a bit bent. Cool little .22s and they’re Winchester’s  thumb1

Title: Re: Do I win something for being first to post in this section?
Post by: Larry D. on May 21, 2020, 08:21:00 AM

Shoot it.
Shoot the everloving daylights out of it.

I had a Springfield miserable loader that just about everybody wanted to try out.

Always seemed to me that everybody wanted one, but never bothered to pony up the cash for one.