My dad has a Winchester 90 .22 rifle that he says keeps misfiring. When it misfires the cartridge flares out. ANY IDEAS? its not the ammo.
He sent it off to the manufacture to ask them to fix it and they sent it back untouched.
A little more info and pictures if you would. The cartridge flares out ?? Where? What part of the round does this? Is the firing pin striking? Is the round chambering completely, what info did Winchester send? More detail needed.
Defenitly more info needed."flares out"? Do you mean a firing pin dent?Like CH said, what info did Win. send?Like George said, could it be a dirty chamber possibly from firing a lot of shorts? More info.
What caliber is marked on the barrel? In addition to regular .22 rimfire calibers, the Model 90 was also made in .22 WRF rimfire which has a larger diameter case, and regular .22s will either misfire or case will swell if it fires.
Wrong ammo was my first thought, sounds as if he was trying to fire .22 LR in a .22 Winchester Rim Fire chamber ( not Winchester Magnum Rim Fire which is longer than the WRF ). Yes, if you could get it to fire I think it might " flare " the case. I believe CCI is making the WRF ammo, or at least they were.
.22 WRF hasn't been available for a couple of years. I've been checking the net every few weeks since Thanksgiving 2012 and no one has had it in stock or back orderable.
Yeah, I imagine they sent it back. The Winchester 1890 has not been made for nigh on eighty years, and the company that DID make it is not the company calling itself Winchester now.
The OP hasn't been back since the day he posted.I was really looking forward to finding out more about his gun problems.I guess he's come and gone.I hate when that happens.Maybe he'll return with more info someday.
Lots of places have it listed but if you look theres no tab for adding it to your basket. You can't even add it to a wish list and most places don't say "Notify Me" when it comes in. The only place I saw that had "add to cart" I haven't heard of, so I'd have to do some research on them before I bought from them.
I have an 1890, mine is chambered in .22 long. Those are hard to find, but I do run across them from time to time. They do make special runs of the WRF ammo, I forget who makes it, I think it's CCI. Check the markings as to chambering on it, I'll bet it's a WRF.
Perhaps the OP didn't have the model # correct, Who would send a 100 yr. old rifle to Winchester for repair. I think he maybe meant a Winchester model 190.
Back in the early 90s I bought a 1937 Smith and Wesson. It would not fire double-action. Single action was fine, but DA just went click-click-click.
I wrote Smith and asked them if they could fix it. They made it, so they should be able to fix it. Now, I realize that was only a 50-year-old gun, not a 100-year-old gun, but it seemed logical that the people that made it would be the people to send it to to have it fixed.
They wrote back and said that they had no parts or anything for guns that old. Alas and alack.
Then I had an inspiration, removed the grips and side plate, sprayed the innards with brake cleaner and watched all the dried cosmoline melt and come out. That cured the problem.
But my "go-to" thought, when I have a broken gun, is "it needs to go back to the factory". Just seems like if ANYONE would know about a malfunctioning Ruger (for example), it would be Ruger. So the original thought of sending it back to Winchester makes sense to me.
I see what you mean by flares out. It looks like the butt end has ballooned out a little. Headspace would my guess. Try a different brand of ammo. All rimfire ammo is not created equal.
Some how, I find it had to believe that a 9422 would have that much of a head space problem or fire out of battery, possible, but I have to wonder, The model number was wrong once ( by a hundred years ) perhaps, just perhaps it is a 9422M? I don't believe I have ever seen .22 Cases ballooned like that after being fired in any properly chambered .22 LR firearm. If I didn't want to take a chance on messing up my own 9422M I would take it out and see if it would fire 22LR and what the cases would look like?
In his correction he lists it as a magnum, and the cases look like magnums.
RJay since you have one, what locks the breechbolt on a 9422M? The only thing I can envision bulging case heads like that is an unlocked breech.
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