Herb Fredricksen
New member
I fired a "new to me" Remington in a CMP match Sunday. The day prior I bought 100 rounds of French 1955 ammo at a local shop. The boxes were marked "Ball, 30 caliber, M2", while a CW reading of the headstamp says "4-55, F,
7.62, M1." The stuff was dangerous.
I fired about 50 rounds and had five FTF and, worse yet, two burst cases, lots of powder and heat on the face. The second burst case caused the bolt to be hard to open and impossible to close. A gunsmith at the range offered to look it over. The extractor showed a long scrapped area with a significant gouge at midpoint suggesting the bolt body diameter expanded at that point. The internals, firing pin and spring, etc., showed no damage. He determined the head spacing was good and that the action would easily accept another undamaged bolt assembly. He suggested I buy a replacement bolt body, extractor and collar. I went to the gun show in Greencastle PA. The primary part supplier looked it over, too, I welcomed his second opinion. He was out of Remington bolt bodys and collars but I bought a new extractor hoping that would do it. While there I bought two bandoleers of newer Danish 30'06 to shoot in the rifle in the next CMP match 9/22.
When I got home I changed extractors. The new extractor helped but the bolt was still tight on opening and closing so I think I need to replace the collar (on the possibility it has deformed) and the bolt body (as it may have deformed and gone out of round.) Springfield Sporters catalog lists both parts (Numrich does not list either) so I can order my phone.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of problem or other suggestions on the fix?
Herb Fredricksen herbfred@cpcug.org
7.62, M1." The stuff was dangerous.
I fired about 50 rounds and had five FTF and, worse yet, two burst cases, lots of powder and heat on the face. The second burst case caused the bolt to be hard to open and impossible to close. A gunsmith at the range offered to look it over. The extractor showed a long scrapped area with a significant gouge at midpoint suggesting the bolt body diameter expanded at that point. The internals, firing pin and spring, etc., showed no damage. He determined the head spacing was good and that the action would easily accept another undamaged bolt assembly. He suggested I buy a replacement bolt body, extractor and collar. I went to the gun show in Greencastle PA. The primary part supplier looked it over, too, I welcomed his second opinion. He was out of Remington bolt bodys and collars but I bought a new extractor hoping that would do it. While there I bought two bandoleers of newer Danish 30'06 to shoot in the rifle in the next CMP match 9/22.
When I got home I changed extractors. The new extractor helped but the bolt was still tight on opening and closing so I think I need to replace the collar (on the possibility it has deformed) and the bolt body (as it may have deformed and gone out of round.) Springfield Sporters catalog lists both parts (Numrich does not list either) so I can order my phone.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of problem or other suggestions on the fix?
Herb Fredricksen herbfred@cpcug.org