for viewing pleasure: winchester lever in 22 short

[hfcable]

this custom rifle, made from an original 1890 winchester pump in 22 short. take down model, very well balanced and smooth operating gun with 24 oct. barrel, just ordered a tang sight to fit it:









has nice wood and overall is a little beauty ! grand kids will love playing with this one!

[LeverGunner]

Wow! That's absolutely awesome! Beautifully done, clean lines. I'd like to know what was involved with the conversion. Who did it?

[Ysabel Kid]

Unreal beautiful!

[Rimfire McNutjob]

Well that's just cool. Really nice work.

[yooper2]

Super cool, I'm also curious who did the work and when? Have you taken it apart?

Eric

[Bill in Oregon]

Stunning Harold! Thanks for sharing.

[AJMD429]

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That is beautiful.

[black river smith]

That is beautiful work and very unique custom creation. You are luck to own that, now.

Could you post some pictures of how the action works? Opening and closing the lever in different positions. Please

Can you tell or do you know, if the lever and trigger assembly came from a 'specific manufactured firearm' or was it all new made for this conversion?

[hfcable]

i will post more pictures in a week or two when i am back in alaska.

there was a firearms engineer, designer, and collector in california who made this and several other neat things, and i got them from his estate after he passed.

he made a lot of this stuff by hand, and was obviously a good machinist i think. this started life as a model 1890 pump.

winchester actually made some prototypes like this but thought that people only wanted the pumps. marlin sure proved them wrong, but it took them until the 1970s to admit it and make the model 94/22 !

this one is very smooth in operation.

[black river smith]

he made a lot of this stuff by hand, and was obviously a good machinist i think. this started life as a model 1890 pump.

this one is very smooth in operation.

The fact that it did start as an 1890 pump (I did notice that) and still retains the receiver and 'lifting head-cover' is why I am interested in how this works under a lever 'normal straight back' motion.

[hfcable]

i will be back in alaska in a few weeks and will try to get those pictures taken and posted

[Paladin]

WOW, what a rifle.

[Griff]

I've viewed this several times over the past couple of days, and keep coming back to the same comment: "STUNNING".

[hfcable]

thank you. i am happy to be the caretaker of this piece until i pass it on, probably to grandkids

[RIHMFIRE]

Awesome!

[JBowen]

That is something!!! Thanks for sharing.


JBowen