Alans Firearms's video: Winchester Model 62Take down clean lube and reassemble

Winchester Model 62 Gallery gun 22 short / 22 Long Rifle Take down clean lube and reassemble With roots dating back to the 1890s, the Winchester Model 62 was the best of a long line of .22 caliber pump action rifles. These handy guns put food on the table, taught many a young shooter, and proved the weapon of choice for those who would plink tin cans, clay ducks, or spin the pinwheels at carnival shooting galleries on warm summer days. Spawned from Browning’s drawing board, this gun was a super simple pump-action rifle, the first of its kind, and it was fast, light, and accurate to boot. This gun was modified in 1906 with a rounded barrel as the logically named Model 1906. The Models 1890 and 1906 combined proved wildly successful with over 1.6-million of the handy shooters made by 1932 and inspiring such imitation as the Colt Lightning. Based on Browning’s proven original, the gun that became the Model 62 looked almost identical for many reasons. Internally, it was the same rifle, using a slide-action worked manually by the user to load and unload rounds from the under barrel tubular magazine into the chamber with each rear-then-forward stroke. A visible exposed hammer was left cocked at the end of the cycle, allowing the user to fire the gun with a very light squeeze of the single action trigger. This minimized trigger slap and, along with the long sight radius on its 23-inch barrel, made the gun extremely accurate. Unlike the Model 1890, the new gun was made to shoot various .22 rimfire rounds interchangeably. This enabled it to cycle either .22Short (20-shots), Long (16-shots), and Long Rifle (14-shots) cartridges in the same magazine. Also unlike the Model 1890, the gun was never able to fire the slightly longer .22 WRF round, which was the .22 Magnum 1900s-era. The Model 62 was designed as a takedown rifle. An oversized screw on the rear of the receiver, when removed, allowed the gun to break apart into two pieces for cleaning, storage, and transport. It loaded much like the Marlin Model 60 of today with a tube mounted under and parallel to the barrel held into place by a spring-loaded plunger at the top. The gun was fitted with basic bead front and open rear sights. A plain walnut straight-grip stock with a rubber plate, very similar to the one sported by the Model 62s were made before the company pulled the plug on these handy little guns in 1959. No less than six generations of the Model 62 were made from 1932 until 1958. Three of these are pre-WWII while the other three are post-1945. The easiest way to tell postwar versions is that they have a 17-groove 8.75-inch foregrip while prewar versions have a 5.75-inch 10-groove grip.