Winchester 94 tube spring

[shiloh505]

This has probably been asked before. I tried the search function and no luck. If I leave my 1958 Winchester 94 loaded for years in my safe will it affect the magazine tube spring negatively?

[J Miller]

Probably not. But why would you want to leave it "loaded for years in my safe"?

Joe

[pwl44m]

I don't think He wanted to leave it loaded in "Ur safe" Joe, He prolly meant "Mine".
Yes it has been covered about six months ago or more. I think the consensus of pro vs con is about 50/50. Actually it wasn't about a Mag tube but about an M1 carbine mag.

[Sixgun]

I gotta laugh at these kinds of questions---nothin' personal The 94 spring has lots of room for expansion and your not gonna hurt it at all. I have personally shot full loaded 45 auto mags from WW2 and they all went off fine. I forgot the times I shot 100-120 year old 1873's & 1886's that still had the original springs---although they were uncompressed-----all with perfect function---and who knows the history behind them

If you have a worry, just replace the spring every 5 years with a new one---they might cost $5 from Wolffe Spings.

The only time I would have any concern would be from a spring from some foreign manufacturer--(except Germany) -----------in other words.....j-u-n-k--- -------------Sixgun

[Malamute]

Most of my lever guns have been loaded for about as long as I've owned them. Only one has had a problem, a Browning 92. I think it's just a bad spring, not the practice of leaving it loaded. It still works, just that the spring is shorter than it should be when I take the magazine cap off. Thinking about it, that gun has probably been loaded less then several others.

[M. M. Wright]

I've been known to just take the spring out, stretch it and put it back on several models of Winchester levers.