New inherited gun: Winchester 90 pump in .22 WRF

[MR_22]

I finally got out with my new Winchester 1890 with my 14-year-old daughter. It shoots wonderfully. The sights are dead-on and shoots right on target up to 50 yards or more. Very nice and very fun!

Here's a video I made of my daughter shooting it:

http://youtu.be/goKqBprcfPY

[I]

Looked like safe shooting. No out of battery conditions happened.

One issue presented in this video is a concept called "short stroking."

Imagine that you have a semiauto expecting a certain impulse from a cartridge firing to cycle. Now imagine that it's your hand and forearm that are the action of the gun, not a gas operated semiautomatic. Your cycling action of the front-end is the action of the gun.

This, fundamentally, is the argument against "slam fire as a restricted weapon." Some feel that the cycling of your forearm becomes the trigger at that time and your holding of the thing designated as "trigger" is merely another safety function.

A pump or semi regardless of feeding method are not supposed to fire unless the bolt is in battery, else there is brass fragmentation hazard to the user.

Safety, please.

Short stroking and trigger hold is not a safe method of fire in the "new school" of pump and leverguns. I guess some people never liked an old show called "The Rifleman."

There are those that say trigger release after intentional fire and weapon cycling should be two separate operations.

Just a few thoughts.

[Kentucky Kevin]

. With training, a row of cartridges could be popped in fairly quickly and in a sustained fashion.

It is amazing what training can accomplish

[TwoGunJayne]

I finally got out with my new Winchester 1890 with my 14-year-old daughter. It shoots wonderfully. The sights are dead-on and shoots right on target up to 50 yards or more. Very nice and very fun!

Here's a video I made of my daughter shooting it:

http://youtu.be/goKqBprcfPY

I liked the video. It really makes me want one a pump rifle now.

[MR_22]

I liked the video. It really makes me want one a pump rifle now.

You're precisely why I posted that.  Go buy one now and you'll feel better, I promise. Guns = happiness.

[TwoGunJayne]

  Heh.

[Moderndayedison]

I've been looking at the Ruger 10/22 semi-auto
rifles with a stainless bull nose match barrel and
scope with a composite rifle stock that has a
pistol grip in addition to the shoulder stock.
(Like some shotguns have.)

They look like they would make a great varmint rifle.
The pump 22 that you have acquired has always been
a prized and preferred  squirrel, rabbit and small game
rifle and I was actually looking at a newer one with a
pump action at a flea market a few years back offered
by a used gun dealer that specializes in used guns.
Mainly re-purposing hunting guns into home defense
weapons, but sometimes he gets some interesting
items in.....they buy guns at auctions and estate
sales, clean them up, and modify them in some cases
to make them more desirable, and then they sell them
at certain flea markets as used guns.  Kind of interesting.

The one you have is a keeper.
I would look for a scope for it.
Possibly a 4x scope for taking
rabbits and other small game
from a distance with it. 

(If you like rabbit hunting.)
(Their good eatin, but you)
(have to lead them just right.)
(Takes lots of practice.)

-MDE