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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => The Winchester Model 1892 => Topic started by: Isom on March 01, 2017, 02:03:19 PM

Title: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Isom on March 01, 2017, 02:03:19 PM
Dig out those pics of your 92's ,,,, foreign or domestic. It's all good.
Isom
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Gabriel Law on March 05, 2017, 03:36:23 PM
I have but one, but I love it.  It's a well worn but very clean rifle from 1894, in 44 WCF.  The barrel is octagonal and 24".   Action:  Smooth as silk.

I deleted the photobucket images:  don't know how to add new pictures from my files...any help?

https://imgur.com/a/MLAQ4


I added this from Imgur but only got a URL addy...how do I get the image to appear here?
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Mike on March 06, 2017, 01:51:48 AM
Winchester 1892 take down in 38WCF made 1898. Rossi 44 WCF.
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Post by: Niederlander on March 06, 2017, 08:13:04 AM
I have but one, but I love it.  It's a well worn but very clean rifle from 1894, in 44 WCF.  The barrel is octagonal and 24".   Action:  Smooth as silk.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/DTaylorSapergia/CAS/100_7182_zpsphssokro.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/DTaylorSapergia/media/CAS/100_7182_zpsphssokro.jpg.html)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/DTaylorSapergia/CAS/100_7181_zpsdf62zhq0.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/DTaylorSapergia/media/CAS/100_7181_zpsdf62zhq0.jpg.html)


That's my favorite!  Putting one together just like it.  I got mine as a very badly done conversion to .44 Special.  Will be back to .44 W.C.F. as soon as I can get a barrel.
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: treebeard on March 06, 2017, 02:49:39 PM
Dig out those pics of your 92's ,,,, foreign or domestic. It's all good.
Isom
I have but one, but I love it.  It's a well worn but very clean rifle from 1894, in 44 WCF.  The barrel is octagonal and 24".   Action:  Smooth as silk.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/DTaylorSapergia/CAS/100_7182_zpsphssokro.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/DTaylorSapergia/media/CAS/100_7182_zpsphssokro.jpg.html)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/DTaylorSapergia/CAS/100_7181_zpsdf62zhq0.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/DTaylorSapergia/media/CAS/100_7181_zpsdf62zhq0.jpg.html)


Have a 24 inch round barrel that is one of my top two favorite 1892's. Similar too this but not quite as good exterior. It came to me with so much rust and debris that the action would not open. Performed total strip down and cleaning and it now works as designed . Bore was hopeless so I had Hoyt rebore from 38-40 to 44-40 and the accuracy is excellent. I would post picture but can get picture into additional option area but not post from there. By the way my round barrel was made in 1892. The guy I got it from said his grandfather had used it for wolf/ coyote control in west Kansas.
Title: Attaching picture problem
Post by: treebeard on March 10, 2017, 11:17:43 AM
Have photos on my iPad that I can get to appear in the attach options area of posting to this site but it will not actually appear in the post when I preview it. Also have not been successful with Photoshop as I can not get the URL to appear. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: King Medallion on March 13, 2017, 02:36:44 PM
My Rossi 92 Carbine, ringless, 44-40.
(https://im1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THISLIFE/010046471428/media/52781592052/small/1489433708/enhance)
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: rbertalotto on March 14, 2017, 12:06:51 PM
Always wanted to try building a model 92 take down. Bought a stainless Rossi for a few $$ and had at it.

(http://images34.fotki.com/v74/photos/2/36012/9975203/DSC_3252-vi.jpg)

Replaced the round barrel with octagon....Just because I love the 8 sided barrels

(http://images59.fotki.com/v683/photos/2/36012/9975203/P1030021-vi.jpg)

Article I wrote for a magazine here:

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/rossi-1892-winchester-take-down-conversion.html (http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/rossi-1892-winchester-take-down-conversion.html)

More stuff here:
http://rvbprecision.com/shooting
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: King Medallion on March 14, 2017, 02:11:44 PM
My Rossi 92, 44-40. Saddle ringless carbine, pre-safety.
(https://im1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THISLIFE/010046471428/media/52781592052/small/1489433708/enhance)
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Post by: Johnny McCrae on March 29, 2017, 10:18:42 AM
I used to have an 1892 EMF Hartford Carbine in .44-40. I sold it to get an 1873 Winchester.

It had some of the nicest looking wood on the stock and forearm. I believe it was some type of a Brazilian hardwood. I stripped the factory finish off and re-oiled it.

Wish I'd never sold it as my Grandson now shoots with me.
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Four Eyes Henry on April 20, 2017, 04:31:47 AM
This is mine in 45 Colt, bought new in 2009, shoot it almost exclusively with blackpowder and a 200 gr biglube..
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Rooster Ron Wayne on November 08, 2017, 09:09:15 PM
I just have to say PHOTOBUCKET can Kiss My @$$ .
Thats just BS with this crap they pulled .
Just sayin
Rooster
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: greyhawk on November 09, 2017, 05:23:15 PM
I hacked up a useable but neglected 25-20 SRC - converted to 38-40 rifle - 26inch "Sprinter" barrel, I got it chambered and profiled - did everything else myself .
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: treebeard on November 09, 2017, 10:11:38 PM
Did you have any trouble with the small frame 1892 feeding and clambering the 38-40?
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Post by: greyhawk on November 10, 2017, 12:23:17 AM
Did you have any trouble with the small frame 1892 feeding and clambering the 38-40?

Not trouble - but ya gotta alter every dang thing inside thats to do with feeding - and they are a sophisticated piece of machinery!
1)enlarge porthole for magazine tube and fit new follower, complete new magazine assembly - tube - spring - follower - end cap - forend nose cap - hanger - forward barrel band
2) hog out the frame in front of the loading gate to clear the bigger shell
3) alter the lifter - and refit it to the frame on the left side (there a couple little detents there on a 38/44 that are part of the left side cartridge guide on the smaller ones)
4) alter the cartridge guides to feed the bigger shell
5) I made a new magazine cutoff nose for the left side guide
6) alter the bolt face and ejector button
7) alter the extractor claw (I used one off an early model 94 that I had - it fit straight in!)
I had a functioning 44-40 to copy off - could not have done it without - and you need to be happy to strip and reassemble a 92 at least 60 times - maybe more - it was a job that makes no economic sense at all - but neither does blasting hundreds of rounds at steel plates every weekend - i enjoyed the trip and I like the result ...
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: King Medallion on November 11, 2017, 09:40:52 AM
Small frame? There are more that 1 size frame for the winchester 92? I didn't know that.
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: greyhawk on November 11, 2017, 04:02:02 PM
Small frame? There are more that 1 size frame for the winchester 92? I didn't know that.

Nope - frame size is same - 44/40 was the first version - so the small (25/20, 32/20, 218 bee) cartridge versions later were an adaption of the original design - only difference in frame size is / was normal manufacturing tolerances and minor changes from batch to batch - my conversion gun is a full thread shorter fit at the barrel shank / shoulder than some others (44/40s) we have seen. 
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: treebeard on November 12, 2017, 12:11:06 AM
The amount of work you did to get a small cartridge version upped to a 44-40 was awesome. I was not smart enough to go the route you went. I also wanted a 44-40 back when they had been soaked up for cas shooting as was their price.  I was lucky enough to make much easier conversions but think you must have gained a very detailed expertise from the route you took that I did not. I tip my hat to you!
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: greyhawk on November 12, 2017, 12:52:07 AM
The amount of work you did to get a small cartridge version upped to a 44-40 was awesome. I was not smart enough to go the route you went. I also wanted a 44-40 back when they had been soaked up for cas shooting as was their price.  I was lucky enough to make much easier conversions but think you must have gained a very detailed expertise from the route you took that I did not. I tip my hat to you!


I went 38/40 - I had a real good one many years ago - almost mint bore and internals - sold it before I knew any better (we do dumb stuff sometimes!) same work for a 38/40 or 44/40 conversion tho - I have a decent lathe and a mill drill - some tooling - I created something a little different from what we normally see - and I like what I did - very satisfying - I knew 92's pretty good before I started  (ha ! I thought I did) learnt a lot doin this .
So how did you do your easier conversions ? what did you do and to what ? I am interested in that . Maybe I took the long road home here .
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: King Medallion on November 12, 2017, 07:23:56 AM
Nope - frame size is same - 44/40 was the first version - so the small (25/20, 32/20, 218 bee) cartridge versions later were an adaption of the original design - only difference in frame size is / was normal manufacturing tolerances and minor changes from batch to batch - my conversion gun is a full thread shorter fit at the barrel shank / shoulder than some others (44/40s) we have seen. 

Ok Thats what I thought. I guess I interpreted something wrong. Thanks. I have an older presafety Rossi in 44-40 that has been trouble free for 20+ years. Pictured above somewhere.
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: treebeard on November 12, 2017, 02:32:26 PM
I went 38/40 - I had a real good one many years ago - almost mint bore and internals - sold it before I knew any better (we do dumb stuff sometimes!) same work for a 38/40 or 44/40 conversion tho - I have a decent lathe and a mill drill - some tooling - I created something a little different from what we normally see - and I like what I did - very satisfying - I knew 92's pretty good before I started  (ha ! I thought I did) learnt a lot doin this .
So how did you do your easier conversions ? what did you do and to what ? I am interested in that . Maybe I took the long road home here .
Took A 1892 full rifle with a corroded 38-40 bore  but otherwise operable and removed the barrel. I found an online auction site that had a model ‘94 44-40 Carbine barrel that must have come off a commemorative of some kind and installed that. After that it was a matter of shortening the mag tube and fitting a new carbine forearm. I call it my Frakenchester I. Next one was a full rifle that was rough and at first the action would not open. Spent a lot of elbow work and got it cleaned up and operating but 38-40 bore was hopeless. This was before I discovered the wonderful world of 38-40’s so sent it off to Bobby Hoyt and rebored it to 44-40 and now it is very accurate in that caliber at about $100 cost. Eventually I had Hoyt reline the old barrel into 38-40 and gathered a bunch of parts and now have a fun 38-40 full length rifle. This one is my Frankenchester II. A collector might gag at these ‘92’s but they all shoot very well and are lot’s of fun.
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Coffinmaker on November 12, 2017, 03:05:32 PM
Ha.

What a fun thread.  You guys are just TOO KOOL.  During my time hammering and filing on guns, I actually built and converted several 92s for discerning customers with very deep pockets.  Once one learns the the various trix for teardown and assembly, the '92 is actually a fairly simple and very reliable piece of machinery.  Some of them are rough as cobs, some are pretty darn smooth.  With just a little judicious rubbin-n-buffin, and a few after-market parts, the '92 can be exceptionally fast.  Once correctly "adjusted" they are super reliable.

I will be always sorry I sold my 92 some lustrum ago.  It was a very nice Navy Arms version.  Pre safety, needed a bunch of tuning to be a match rifle.  Wish I had kept it.  Been looking for another one ever since. (sigh)
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: greyhawk on November 12, 2017, 05:30:11 PM
Took A 1892 full rifle with a corroded 38-40 bore  but otherwise operable and removed the barrel. I found an online auction site that had a model ‘94 44-40 Carbine barrel that must have come off a commemorative of some kind and installed that. After that it was a matter of shortening the mag tube and fitting a new carbine forearm. I call it my Frakenchester I. Next one was a full rifle that was rough and at first the action would not open. Spent a lot of elbow work and got it cleaned up and operating but 38-40 bore was hopeless. This was before I discovered the wonderful world of 38-40’s so sent it off to Bobby Hoyt and rebored it to 44-40 and now it is very accurate in that caliber at about $100 cost. Eventually I had Hoyt reline the old barrel into 38-40 and gathered a bunch of parts and now have a fun 38-40 full length rifle. This one is my Frankenchester II. A collector might gag at these ‘92’s but they all shoot very well and are lot’s of fun.
Hmm all good plans! I started out with a burned our 32/20 and a 25 barrel we "found" in a gunshop already threaded and chambered, dovetails cut too (worse luck!) I had to take a bit over half a thread off to get headspace but the dovetails all outta whack so took a full thread off it and then filed the barrel face back to fit, which shortened the chamber just a whisker too much - this almost 40 years ago - still remember sitting on the loungeroom floor with that stripped out 92 with a brass rod down the barrel and a wooden dowel rod and hammer - 200 unprimed cases - feed one in, tap him home with the wood dowel, tip the muzzle up and eject him with the brass rod - all they needed was a little crease in the shoulder, but it was just too much for the action - no I didnt have a full length size die! stuff like that had to come from America on a boat - took forever and cost an arm and a leg. Once I got the brass fire formed was all ok - we reloaded with an old lyman tong tool. (the combination one with the bullet mold as well)  Thats the gun I just did my conversion on so there is some history there!
The other I did was a 44/40 parts gun, we found a 92 action and the critical parts under a gunsmiths bench about the same time - dug around in the junk there and came up with an old 44 barel from a 1873 with a ring bulge near the muzzle - had been a heavy half octagon (have not seen another one like this its .920 at the chamber end) I cut the round back to half of the octagon length and made a shorty - it would shoot copper jackets and it was my hog gun for a long time - heavy loads and hollow point 44 mag bullets - I didnt figure this out - knew then what I know now that old barrel woulda done - I had that one rebarrelled several years back and only recently slugged the bore of the old barl - 433!! it wouldnt shoot lead for me in a fit but it did well with those 44mag boolits - similar deal with the 38/40 barrel really, we took it out of my sons '73 to rebarrel it and it looked to good to throw - so AFTER I ordered a new one for my latest conversion I went to work on the old one and I got it shooting quite good. Not sorry about the new one but learned some things along the way - those old 73 barrels in 38/40 slow twist - VERY sensitive to projectile length/velocity - somethinhg I knew but you gotta keep reminding yourself !
Anyway heres a pic of the pair - 44/40 shorty and 38/40 long rifle converted from 25/20 - I made the stocks and forend on both guns and magazine tubes etc - magazine retainer on both is via a tapered collar that is silver soldered to the tube and fits up tight inside the forend cap - thats how come no front band on the shorty.             
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Bibbyman on March 26, 2018, 03:29:22 PM
Last week I traided into a Winchester 92 in 32WCF made in 1905.  Some screws are wrong and the magizene tube is a new replacement.   But it seems to function fine. The bore is as pristine as any I've seen.

https://youtu.be/pChsQpT1TV0 (https://youtu.be/pChsQpT1TV0)

(http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=58850.0;attach=61999;image)

(http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=58850.0;attach=62001;image)

Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Slamfire on March 26, 2018, 07:14:14 PM
 That's what a 92 should look like ,"NICE".


 smoke'm if y'a got'm,,,,Hootmix.
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Gabriel Law on March 27, 2018, 12:49:22 PM
I went to FAQ and got some help posting images here, but only can post a URL address...so how do I get an image to appear instead?

https://imgur.com/ZqATz1l

Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: Bibbyman on March 27, 2018, 12:58:38 PM
I went to FAQ and got some help posting images here, but only can post a URL address...so how do I get an image to appear instead?

https://imgur.com/ZqATz1l



I don't know how to post so it'll show but I would like to know more about Imgur.    Good? Bad?  Easy?  Lots of ads?   
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: King Medallion on April 25, 2019, 04:39:09 PM
Nice day out so rifles and camera went out.
(https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THISLIFE/010046471428/media/54529143654/medium/1556228067/enhance)
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Post by: sixtus on May 11, 2019, 05:42:42 AM
My 92 is a 357 rossi used for hunting. Stainless and sacriligeous optical device on it, but the eyes aren't what they used to be.
Hopefully not too out of place on this forum.
(https://i.postimg.cc/tChj3vK9/20190224-093155.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/GHhVrK3f)
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: RRio on May 14, 2019, 07:13:42 PM


I will be always sorry I sold my 92 some lustrum ago.  It was a very nice Navy Arms version.  Pre safety, needed a bunch of tuning to be a match rifle.  Wish I had kept it.

I can relate . My NA '92 in .357 was one of my biggest regrets of swapping. It had the real walnut stocks and the action had been done by Lee's Gunsmithing. It was super slick. Buddy talked me into swapping it for his USFA.  Always regretted it.  I have a SS Rossi Trapper that I plan to ship off to  https://stevesgunz.com/ (https://stevesgunz.com/).
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Post by: DeaconKC on June 07, 2019, 04:13:42 PM
Just picked this one up in .45. It has an older brother here in .357 but no pics of that one handy.
(https://i.imgur.com/phAIziA.jpg)
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Post by: dddrees on June 10, 2019, 04:24:52 AM
Just picked this one up. It took me awhile to find one in 357.


(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ee369/dddrees/0/2ad09ab0-e629-4167-9a34-54238bbd21a9-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://beta.photobucket.com/u/dddrees/p/2ad09ab0-e629-4167-9a34-54238bbd21a9)


(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ee369/dddrees/0/5dc9a11f-6b8d-4b29-acea-2b56c9f53231-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://beta.photobucket.com/u/dddrees/p/5dc9a11f-6b8d-4b29-acea-2b56c9f53231)
Title: Re: '92 Pics,,,, show em'
Post by: DeaconKC on July 26, 2019, 04:23:56 PM
Well, stained the stocks to make it look a bit better. Minwax Cherry and Mahogany stain.
(http://i.imgur.com/iiJhauW.jpg) (https://imgur.com/iiJhauW)
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Post by: russ1943 on August 03, 2019, 06:03:54 PM
Here My 92  EMF 44-40 Rifle
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Post by: treebeard on October 21, 2019, 12:37:39 AM
My 1892 25-20 carbine/Users/stevenweems/Desktop/wwtRqKV-5.jpg (https://www.cascity.com/Users/stevenweems/Desktop/wwtRqKV-5.jpg)
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Post by: ndnchf on August 30, 2020, 05:53:42 PM
I just picked up this Chiappa M1892 rifle in .44WCF.  It is very smooth and accurate.


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Post by: Buckaroo Lou on September 04, 2020, 09:51:06 AM
Here are my two Winchester (Miroku) short rifles. One is in .45 Colt and the other is in .357 mag/38 spec. I use to have an original first year (four digit serial number) Winchester sporting rifle in .38-40 in very good condition, but sold it in a very weak moment. Have regretted it ever since.

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Post by: Abilene on September 06, 2020, 04:10:00 PM
My 1892 25-20 carbine/Users/stevenweems/Desktop/wwtRqKV-5.jpg (https://www.cascity.com/Users/stevenweems/Desktop/wwtRqKV-5.jpg)

Although yours is a 25-20 (cool!) it made me start wondering.  Seems like most of the original '92's I've seen for sale were rifles.  I wonder if it is because Hollywood snatched up a large number of the carbines over the years.
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Post by: Abilene on December 21, 2020, 07:29:31 PM
Okay, got one.  32-20 carbine from 1909.  I wrote about it here: https://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?topic=64938.0

Shown with 32-20 Colt from 1915.

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Post by: RRio on June 19, 2021, 11:28:43 AM
This is mine in 45 Colt, bought new in 2009, shoot it almost exclusively with blackpowder and a 200 gr biglube..

Whats the longest range you have shot this? I just bought a 24" in .45 and I am curious about how far out it will reach.   ???
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Post by: Phil Morris on July 02, 2021, 01:43:43 PM
Here are my 92s:
1905 mfg Winchester octagon barrel in 32 WCF
1894 mfg Winchester SRC in 44 WCF very nicely converted to 44 Magnum
1909 mfg Winchester SRC in 32 WCF
Spanish "El Tigre" copy of 1892 Winchester in 44-40

Phil
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Post by: Buckaroo Lou on August 13, 2022, 03:26:22 PM
This is my newest 1892, a new Winchester Deluxe Take Down in .45 Colt. This is the best wood on any of my rifles.

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Post by: King Medallion on October 16, 2022, 09:23:10 AM
Thats some beautiful wood on that one!
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Post by: King Medallion on October 16, 2022, 09:25:26 AM
I keep forgetting I have this one way back in the back of the safe. A Rossi 92 SRC pre-safety 38/357 that I bought for my wife years ago for CAS. Turns out she wasn't for the sport, so it just sits in the safe.
(https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-Dhr2tlvawMSNFX4TrMAMCKr_1AnQ3pv5Eb7vbRPURMqWMm7hmL0dnpTIbr3UhEzJ?cn=THISLIFE&res=small&ts=1563458728)