A cowboy gunsmith took my gun apart sitting at the kitchen table, cleaned all the parts, cut down the VERY stiff ejector spring and milled down the breechbolt pin a bit. Put it back together and now it’s working beautifully. This guy thinks the breechbolt pin had been taken out a one point and put...

That's a fine picture...and in 38-40! Looks like you came to the rescue of that old Colt. It has a good home now. Thanks for the pictures

My new '92 (new to me, it's 106 years old) 38-40, octogon barrel shoots fine in every way but... it cycles very stiffly. I've spent many hours comparing that gun with a very smooth cycling '92, 38-40 round barrel. They look exactly the same in every way. I've made an examination of every part and ho...

Griff, When a round gets stuck, it happens when I load one. If I load more than one they all seem to feed just fine but the last one that I load gets stuck kiddy corner in the action. Wierd!! Well I went out to the range this morning, shot 150 rounds and it only happend once! That old guns shoots go...

Thanks folks for all the good advice. I'm a beginner here and am very greatful because I don't have a good lever-gun smithy here in southern New Hampshire and I wouldn't otherwise know what to do. So here's the deal- I have two 92s. The round barrel built in '93 works just fine. I use it to compare ...

I just picked up a '92 Winchester (built in '02), 38-40, octogon barrel, beautiful patina. I tried cleaning it up, pulled out the magazine spring and follower, cleaned that out real good but the action is still kind of sticky. Is it safe to use a product like "Gunscrub" on this? I'm told t...