With their first autoloading shotgun in the post-Browning era a spectacular failure caused in part by their necessary dodging of Browning’s patents (which Winchester helped him develop, ironically) the company took a long break from the whole affair. While the other American gunmakers enjoyed licensed and even military contract production Auto-5s, Winchester stumbled about producing the famously terrible long recoil operated Model 1911 shotgun, not to be confused with the pistol, which limped along for ten or so years before being quietly shuffled under the rug in the early 20s. The autoloader itch remains unscratched, however, after the schism between the company and Browning himself over four decades earlier. Winchester has done well enough in the pump shotgun market with their John Browning derived designs: the Model 1912 (shortened to simply Model 12) had become the household name in slide actions which Remington and the rest chased after and the cowboy classic 1897 was just now reaching the twilight of its production. The year is 1950, and Winchester Repeating Arms company looks on with envy while Remington, Browning and even Savage pump out their versions of the most popular semi-automatic shotgun of all time: the Auto-5. Hope this is helpful if anyone has has one of these.The last of an era, the Winchester Model 50 I have some pics, the old firing pin is on brown cardboard, the new one is on blue. I think it gets easier after you do it a few times.
Also remember that the bolt and op rod have to be all the way back to get the action out of the stock. Second time, I put the trigger assembly in place, pinned it, then put the recoil springs (2) and the guide rod back and it was not a big deal. First way I did it was with the recoil spring in place. Second was putting the trigger assembly back. It didn't look like the new firing pin protruded from the bolt face, until I realized that it did when rotated to the locking position. First thing that bothered me was assembling the bolt. I have done it twice, found a couple problem areas. I did see on the internet that a lot of people have had problems with taking these guns apart and putting back together. It slides thru the bolt sleeve locking pin so that part was also replaced. The new pin has a flat section on the forward part. If anyone has one, the old pin is just a round firing pin, turned on a lathe or whatever.
(it is 16 degrees today) We'll see how it goes. I put the gun back together and have to go to the range soon.
In another envelope, I got a check for $30 to cover the gunsmithing. About three weeks later, I got an envelope from Winchester with a new firing pin and a new bolt sleeve locking pin. She confirmed it had not had the part exchanged and asked me to mail in the old firing pin.
#WINCHESTER MODEL 25 REMOVAL EJECTOR SERIAL#
(as of Jan, 2018) I called the 800 number (80) and gave the lady my serial number. There is plenty about the recall on the internet but here are my experiences. It looked fine to me and I was going to hunt with it early in December but the trip got cancelled. I tore the gun down and did have the old firing pin. I am not sure how serious it is, I haven't been able to find anything dramatic posted on the internet. It is an old recall, goes back to the 1990's I think. I knew about the recall when I bought the gun. I bought this gun back in November and posted a few pics in the "last gun" thread.
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