1890 22 long feed issue|Winchester Rifles|Forum|Winchester Collector

KingCobb said
Ok, life has slowed down a bit and I was finally able to get a chance to mess with this 1890.  The barrel says 22 long and I have some which I tried in it.

 

It fires fine and functions well when I put a single round in the tube, however, if there is more than one in the tube, the elevator won’t rise up.

 

Could it have been converted to 22 LR and the 22 long is too short now?

 

I can give that a try and see what happens.  

How did you determine the gun has been converted?  Most chambers are deeper than necessary. Sometimes a long will chamber a long rifle and so on.  The part that is different on the individual calibers is the lifter.  The lifter is cartridge specific.  A WFR has many different parts. 

KingCobb said 

 

Currently letting the buggered rear tang screw soak in penetrating oil to see if I can get it off to see what the inside of stock looks like.  

The screws provided with the tang sights were not ( in my opinion) properly heat treated and the screw slots were not properly cut (again in my opinion). The screws are very soft and even with the correct hollow ground bit that fits properly you have to be very careful not to let it slip. Way too many Stanley or craftsman screw drivers were used on these and caused lots of problems down the road. (aka easy out removal)

If the gun has a “long rifle” lifter in it the longs will go in farther than designed. Maybe this is what allows the second round to get in the way?  Since the chambers are deeper than absolutely necessary the gun could have had the elevator changed to a long rifle?

I think so too.  Long ammo is much harder to find.  I would just shoot it as is.  If this bothers you take the elevator out and see what is going on.