That was the last straw, I found a sucker to buy the Winchester and bought a Marlin M1894S,Īfter 8,000 rds it broke a firing pin. After this the Lever Link broke, 3 months and 5 nasty letters later Winchester told me they would sell me the part but void the warranty, unless I sent it to their warranty center again After 1,500 rds the tubular magazine springs gave up the ghost, off to Wolff Gunsprings. Shooting after 50 rds all the screws in the receiver came loose, so I bought some Locktite. After every 50 rds the rear sight elevator would fall off, so we installed a Williams rear sight. Within 20 rds the pot metal feed ramp broke, off for warranty work. I did some testing and found a real accurate load of 7.2 grains of Unique pushing a 240 grain LSWC as an accurate load. Little did I know that within 2 years I would start shooting Cowboy Action. 44 Magnum, shades of John Wayne that large loop lever was kewl. Virtually everyone has a horror story about 1 firearms they have owned I understand the weight of the gun will make a difference a little.īut to say a 44 Mag in the same gun kicks harder then a 30/30 ? So how is it that a 44mag kicking harder in a 94. So with higher muzzle velocity and average bullet weights Yes, that will help with short cartridges for a while but at some point that little nub on the end of the link will wear just enough that the problem will come back. Some will tell you when that happens to change the Link.
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44 Specials in the gun but just know if you go to short on OAL you may gat misfeeds. Just a few thousandths shorter and they work fine. I have found that loads that are at the specified OAL max may sometimes get hung up when cycling the action. Oh yeah, they can be sensitive to OAL on your cartridges. RNFP and factory loads that have a flat "point" are okay.īy the way, the later models that have that scary intimidating safety and the dreaded angle eject work just fine too -) They also do not like round nosed bullets. 94 with a factory hunting load than I would a. Rooster, I would rather shoot a 30-30 Win.