Took the wife out shooting the other day, and she took a liking to my Winchester 1892 in 44-40. Quickly burned through the box and asked for more. It sometimes doesn't pick up rounds from the tube and I'd bought a new spring many months back and finally decided to put in the new magazine spring.
I was a little surprised that I had to actually go fishing for the old spring. I pulled out about 14" of spring when I found a case to the far end. Hmmmmm I remember looking in there a lot when checking it empty and seeing the steel follower... What is going on? Then the lightbulb came on and I tipped the muzzle down. Out slide another case, another 14" of spring, followed lastly by the steel follower! A-ha! Someone had a clever workaround for a busted spring!
Never seen that before and I figured I'd share.
Balloon head and a small primer--->pretty old case.
Pretty neat!