Reply With QuoteYou probably have plenty of spring, but your'e lacking firing pin travel.
My Savage 110 has been having light strikes, so I ordered two new old stock firing pin assemblies from Numrich. One is bent. Easy enough to fix, but I'm glad I bought two.
Anyway, so I swap out the original firing pin assembly for one of the new ones, set and measure protrusion, and go to test fire some primed empty cases. Nothin'. Marked primers, and no bang. WTF?
So I put the old FP assembly back in just for shiggles, measure protrusion again, it's good. Test fire, expecting "click", not "bang". Goes bang every time, 10 cases in a row.
IDK WTF is going on. Does my rifle have a vengeful ghost?
Should I order a round of three Wolff extra power springs? I'm thinking about doing that anyway, since they're all old used assemblies and could probably use fresh springs anyhow.
Thoughts?
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You probably have plenty of spring, but your'e lacking firing pin travel.
"As long as there's lead in the air....there's still hope.."
The pin that now goes bang, may have had crud in it, & is now O.K. New firing pin may need adjusted. With bolt out of rifle & in fired position does cocking piece pin have some free-play or is it bottomed out. If no free-play firing pin does not have enough travel. Extra power firing pin springs may cause pierced primers.
Clean the guts of the bolt. Years of rust and crud can impede firing pin movement. I just helped a guy with that problem on a bolt action shotgun. You wouldn't believe the rusty brown crud that came out of the bolt.
...and don't forget the inside of the bolthead shaft, its why pipe cleaners were invented, to clean firing pin holes!
Each morning eat a live green toad, it will be the worst thing you'll have face all day.
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