Thanks,
I've exchanged emails with Lassiter today. He's the name that always comes up when there is a question about 1887s. He fell short of being sure if parts from reproduction 1887s would work.
We're cowboy action shooters so Lassiter is well known to us. That's not to say we know him well but we have met him.
The 87 back story.. A guy runs a well stocked gun shop and specializes in buying out collections, estates and other gun shops. A guy had a bar in his basement with an old west theme. He wanted to remodel it into a biker theme. So the store guy bought out the guns he had displayed on the walls. I'm guessing approaching 100 guns. This old Winchester was the one I bought.
This is what it looks like. So ugly it's beutifull.
