Early-1900’s Winchester 1892 Troubleshooting

Customer brings you an early-1900’s Winchester 1892 that he recently inherited. He states that it has been in his father’s gun cabinet for at least 50 years, and he can not remember the last time he saw his father take it out. Besides a little surface rust, the rifle appears to be in fairly good working order. The customer’s complaint is that the rifle is not feeding when he charges the action. He claims he can “get it to work once in a while, but not consistently”. He is only attempted one type of ammunition, that he found in the drawer of his father’s gun cabinet. He has not fired the rifle since inheriting it; he is only tried to cycle ammunition.

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