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Winchester 62A followup

Thanks to those who supplied expertise. The trouble is solved as far as I can tell, and it took:

1) a brand new magazine spring from Numrich Arms, and 2) a brand new follower, likewise.

I was frankly *amazed* at the difference between the old spring, and the new one. I was able to install the old one without hardly blinking twice, the new one was like trying to stuff a snake into a keyhole. I finally hit on the idea of slipping a long thin piece of round stock down the center of the spring to keep it from kinking up as it was fed in.

Clearly the old follower was not the correct one for this gun, the new one was much larger in diameter on the pusher side, and is not designed to extend out into the elevator mechanism in the gun.

Because I did not want to load up a bunch of live rounds to test the feeding, I machined up four aluminum dummy .22 rounds, that was most of the time spend on this project.

Jim

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jim rozen
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Glad to hear it worked out for ya Jim. Those old pumps sure can be fun.

I repaired an old one for a friend that had been through a lot of shells. The lockup surfaces were simply mashed out of shape (soft steel). I am a little surprised pump .22's are not more popular. Kinda catchy.

StaticsJason

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My son is a southpaw..and the first .22 I bought for him was a Remington

572 pump (age 8 or so).

The only realistic option for most lefthanded shooters are pump or lever action rifles as most long guns are not made in LH actions (with some notible exceptions)

Gunner

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Gunner

Yep, I'm right-handed, but left eye dominant.

Ah, my brother has the sweetest remington .22, clip fed with a left handed bolt action. He has the same hand/eye thing as I do.

I recall he almost lost the bolt for that thing once, he nearly had a heart attack.

Jim

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jim rozen

Gunner, lefties do just fine with bolt action and semi-autos.

My left eye is much better so I typically shoot lefty. I used to shoot DCM matches in the 450-475 range (i.e. better than average) using an M1 fired as a lefty. Yes it is awkward reaching over with the left hand when slinged up, but certainly doable. And shooting smallbore left-handed with a right-hand actions isn't much of a problem.

That said, a Vang comped 590A1 would be my first choice for home defense ;-)

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Aaron Kushner

Some well trained ones do, indeed. The fellow that used to beat me regularly in Leg matches was shooting a 03A3, left handed. But you folks are the exception, rather than the rule.

Yup. See above though.

Gunner

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