JHZR2
Staff member
Have a 1957 Winchester 63, .22LR semi-auto. Recently received it from family, probably hasn’t been shot in 50 years. Cleaned and lubed it, action moves nice and smooth. But two issues.
1) It won’t chamber from the tubular mag. It won’t quite stovepipe, the round just gets lodged in there crooked, because it won’t feed in straight and chamber hard. If a round is fed in manually, straight, and the action allowed to close hard, it will usually chamber and can be fired.
2) If a round is manually entered, the action closed hard, and the round fired, it will not eject. The ejector on the action moves smooth and free, and seems to engage the round well enough.
Here are some rounds that show damage from the attempt to chamber. The fired round shows no odd damage from chambering or the failed attempt to eject.
The rifle is clean and lubed. But maybe some core thing isn’t? I’m worried if there could have been peeking from dry firing decades ago. Hard to tell.
Anyone know these rifles and have any recommendations?
Thanks!
1) It won’t chamber from the tubular mag. It won’t quite stovepipe, the round just gets lodged in there crooked, because it won’t feed in straight and chamber hard. If a round is fed in manually, straight, and the action allowed to close hard, it will usually chamber and can be fired.
2) If a round is manually entered, the action closed hard, and the round fired, it will not eject. The ejector on the action moves smooth and free, and seems to engage the round well enough.
Here are some rounds that show damage from the attempt to chamber. The fired round shows no odd damage from chambering or the failed attempt to eject.
The rifle is clean and lubed. But maybe some core thing isn’t? I’m worried if there could have been peeking from dry firing decades ago. Hard to tell.
Anyone know these rifles and have any recommendations?
Thanks!