Rebel Jack
Marksman
This may be a little premature as I haven't seen the rifle yet, but a co-worker of mine recently came into a Winchester model 190 and is making the claim to me that the rifle will fire, but the case ejects with the bullet still seated inside?
At this time I'm chalking it up to operator stupidity. Or maybe it's doing something different all together and he just isn't describing it properly.
What I DO know at this point: The gun had been sitting in his girlfriend's, father's safe for a number of years and had a bit of rust over it that he paid Me to clean up. After cleaning it I fired 3 rounds of Remington golden bullets through it. 1 for function, and then 2 in rapid succession to test feeding. No issues. After returning the gun to him he claims to have fired 2 magazines (tube magazine) for a total of 32 rounds into an old speaker that "was pretty close to me." Of those 32 he claims only 15 actually fired and the rest "fired" but ejected the casing with the bullet still seated. Hes also reporting jams and double feeds (typical of this rifle, from what I've read). Ammunition used was Federal Champion he bought at Dunham's, on sale for $20/350rd.
He'll be bringing it back to me along with the "fired" ammo tomorrow for a look-see. I'm not a qualified gunsmith by any stretch of the imagination, so I won't be doing any tinkering with it, but has anyone seen this issue before? Or even heard of it? I would think even if the brass was empty, you'd still get enough force from the primer to push the bullet out...
At this time I'm chalking it up to operator stupidity. Or maybe it's doing something different all together and he just isn't describing it properly.
What I DO know at this point: The gun had been sitting in his girlfriend's, father's safe for a number of years and had a bit of rust over it that he paid Me to clean up. After cleaning it I fired 3 rounds of Remington golden bullets through it. 1 for function, and then 2 in rapid succession to test feeding. No issues. After returning the gun to him he claims to have fired 2 magazines (tube magazine) for a total of 32 rounds into an old speaker that "was pretty close to me." Of those 32 he claims only 15 actually fired and the rest "fired" but ejected the casing with the bullet still seated. Hes also reporting jams and double feeds (typical of this rifle, from what I've read). Ammunition used was Federal Champion he bought at Dunham's, on sale for $20/350rd.
He'll be bringing it back to me along with the "fired" ammo tomorrow for a look-see. I'm not a qualified gunsmith by any stretch of the imagination, so I won't be doing any tinkering with it, but has anyone seen this issue before? Or even heard of it? I would think even if the brass was empty, you'd still get enough force from the primer to push the bullet out...