Re-lined my Winchester 1890/1906 .22

royboy

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After a lot of research I just finished rebuilding my uncle's old Winchester model 1890/1906. The 1890 & 1906 parts are almost interchangeable so there lots of parts online. After re-lining the barrel, I replaced the receiver, the bolt, firing pin, main spring, hammer, trigger, inner magazine tube, the front magazine tube hanger and numerous other small parts. I also had to repair a large crack in the butt stock. Tried sighting it in but it was shooting 3"-4" to the right. I tapped the f/sight until it fell off. After more research it was determined that the barrel needed to be straightened. With my friend holding the barrel on a couple of blocks on the anvil I took an 8# sledge and hit it until it was zeroed in. It's UGLY but that's the way I got it and it is now a tack driver.
 
I once did the same sort of thing with a model 90 I acquired. Shooting it off of a picnic bench I found it could not be sighted in. I put part of the barrel in between the boards of the bench and applied a little pressure several times along the barrel and it sighted in just fine afterward. Those barrels are more pliable than some people think.
 
Sounds like the apocryphal "jacked up the front sight and changed everything under it".
Yea. It reminds me a bit of a Savage 99 "restoration" I saw on a now-defunct local forum.

The guy wanted to save his grandfather's 1918 Savage 99 that had been hidden in a chicken house for 30+ years, but it was in really poor shape (not surprisingly).

3 parts guns, many shipments from Numrich, and an astronomical gunsmith bill later....
He had a cut-down original barrel, and buttplate, with everything in between being replaced; and the entire rifle refinished/reblued.


It was a pretty big deviation from what most of us would take on for a "restoration" or even a 'rebuild'.

BUT .... He was happy with it. ;)
 
Sounds like Daniel Boone's original tomahawk. The handle has only been replaced three times and the head twice.:D
 
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