I have an old Winchester 1897. C prefix, made in 1897. It's been giving me grief with feeding and is fast outstripping my patience with it, what with it resisting every single remedy I have tried. So far nobody has been able to help.

When I run the action it will feed a shell into the lifter, but then when I close the action it spits out another shell into the air.
To date I have adjusted the fit of the lifter acting on the cartridge stops, I have replaced the left cartridge stop and soon the right too. However nothing works.
I frequently lose a full half my tube to these problems. I can only hope someone here can help, lest I find myself giving up on the damn thing and pitching it into the back of my safe to be forgotten.
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