I recently wrote a post about a Winchester 190 that had come to the shop for a detailed cleaning.  Having not been familiar with the 190, I have been surprised to see how much traffic that post has attracted.  Evidently there are a lot of you out there who have found this great gun to be fun to shoot through the years.  Because of the interest, I thought I would follow it up with some information I found about the Winchester 290. The 290 is the...

I recently had one of these great guns in the shop for a maintenance/cleaning job.  The gun was in pretty rough shape because it had been stored in a barn for many years, but with a little work it started look great again.  The photo above is a representative picture I found.  Before there was a Ruger 10/22, this was one of the slickest guns around. One of the things that I noticed was like the Ruger 10/22 it is almost impossible to clean if...