Winchester 92 magazine tube
Hi....I have a model 92,in 38-40, with a 20 in. barrel, and a button magazine. What is supposed to keep the magazine tube spring from pushing the tube and plug right out the front of the forearm and cap? Recoil, and rounds in the magazine, seem to cause foreward movement of the whole magazine. There seems to be no retaining screw as there is on a model 94. Thanks......BT
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Is the model 92 a carbine or rifle? I suspect it has been cut down. The 20" bbl suggests it is a carbine. 0 -
Winchester M92 carbines in 38 and 44 caliber held their magazine tubes against recoil by means of the barrel band screws that passed through a groove in the tube. Most rifles used the unthreaded portion of the magazine tube plug to pass into a mating hole in the bottom of the barrel. Nearly a dozen different magazine tube plugs were used on M92s and various combinations of plug lips and through screws are often found. Whatever was used, there was always some means of securing the magazine against recoil. If your gun is a rifle and has no lip to mate with a groove in the bottom of the barrel and no screw hole in the barrel it is likely that the barrel and magazine have been shortened. If it is a carbine, the button magazine should be retained by the rear barrel band screw, a lip on the tube plug, or a through screw. Sometimes an assembler would use several different methods in order to obtain a snug tube fit. 0 -
For anyone interested....The forearm cap has a shallow lip just inside the front edge, so I drilled and tapped the mag tube and plug for a 4-40 machine screw, seated it, filed the head down for clearance to just catch the lip, and now the magazine has positive retention in place, and hidden from view. BT 0
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