When I bought the rifle it had had a damaged stock, It worked just fine but it wasn’t pretty (the rifle in itself is already an ugly duckling) and I kept my eyes open for a replacement.
a little while back I scored a whole rifle minus the bolt and mag for 100 bucks, I swapped the stocks and now it looks much nicer. now though I have a new problem, the bloody thing has taken to soft striking the primers, sometime every second shot.
what could be the cause? and any suggestions on a fix would be much appreciated.
Can you give a pic of the bolt broken down into parts? It may need a new firing spring or you may be able to put a washer in there to add some preload. could be quite a few things.
I can take some more pic’s tomorrow.
I thought of ordering a new spring, but I wondered why the change in stock could effect it like that. I thought maybe the new stock could be interfering with the safety or something causing drag on the firing pin.
parts are not readily available for these old girls so i might have to switch back to the old stock if I can’t ftgure it out.
no mate not yet, really only laziness to blame. I am planing on swapping it back to the old stock to see if that makes a difference, if not soak the bolt in diesel for a bit and give it a really good clean.
Not that it matters much to the post but my very first gun was the 340e chambered in the 22 hornet, I absolutely love it still to this day and shoot it every chance I can get even inspite of her looks. I hope you get the bolt issue sorted as its a hard graft finding parts Nowdays.
