I recently got a prewar 1936 vintage Colt Woodsman.
It shoots pretty dang good. But not PERFECT!
VERY occasionally I get a FTF on a mystery basis.
Sooooooo..... I get to thinking.... "Hey, I bet the firing pin has some gunk in the channel."
HA!
So today I switched from HiSpeeds to Standards ..thinking... maybe it just wants some "easier" shooting ammo.
oop.
Another FTF.... But only ONE instead of several during the session.
Still.... wouldn't hurt to clean it GOOD!
Oh, I cleaned it MOSTLY good when I got it.
But....FTF....hmmmm? Maybe not good enough.
So I gets me down my Firearms Dissasembly book and go to page 42.
YAY!
But it's a MATCH TARGET schematic. So what? How different can the innards be?
Well QUITE different it turns out.
So I goes to my faithful Internet to LOOK UP the subject.
There are more entries on Colt Woodsmans (Woodsmen?) than there are on Justin Bieber.
And NONE pertain to the 1936 serial number 1046XX kinds.
Good grief! There are even FIRING LINE posts by the jillions.
And....none... show what ...I... got.
I got it all to pieces easy enough. BUT.... taking out the firing pin to scrub the channel or maybe inspect for glumps of crud?
Noop.
They show ways to twist the extractor and remove it.
uh-huh.
MY extractor don't know the TWIST.
AND I'm not dumb enough to FORCE a gun piece to come out if it REALLY doesn't want to.
And they say you put the GRIP SCREW in the plug in the slide and take out the firing pin.
Well, MINE has a slotted screw where EVERY i-net source says there shouldn't BE one.
So, thinks me, how about firing pin strike?
Well, the pix show what I think is adequate strike to fire any 22LR ctg around.
The one in the pic shows 2 indentations. The lesser one is from a round DRY FIRED while the BIG ole whack is from live fire.
Both look good enough to me.
( I use an empty from a session for a dummy to save the firing pin because I'm too cheap to pop for snap caps and I lose them anyway.)
So.... way too long story short.... I just ran some penetrating oil down the firing pin from the front and added some drops of oil to kinda work around.
Here's the pic of what MY Woodsman slide looks like from the bottom.
The first pic of all the crap is to prove that I ..did... take it all apart.
Now... has anyone seen a similar setup on a Woodsman that they actually took the firing pin out of?
I think I'm done now.
It shoots pretty dang good. But not PERFECT!
VERY occasionally I get a FTF on a mystery basis.
Sooooooo..... I get to thinking.... "Hey, I bet the firing pin has some gunk in the channel."
HA!
So today I switched from HiSpeeds to Standards ..thinking... maybe it just wants some "easier" shooting ammo.
oop.
Another FTF.... But only ONE instead of several during the session.
Still.... wouldn't hurt to clean it GOOD!
Oh, I cleaned it MOSTLY good when I got it.
But....FTF....hmmmm? Maybe not good enough.
So I gets me down my Firearms Dissasembly book and go to page 42.
YAY!
But it's a MATCH TARGET schematic. So what? How different can the innards be?
Well QUITE different it turns out.
So I goes to my faithful Internet to LOOK UP the subject.
There are more entries on Colt Woodsmans (Woodsmen?) than there are on Justin Bieber.
And NONE pertain to the 1936 serial number 1046XX kinds.
Good grief! There are even FIRING LINE posts by the jillions.
And....none... show what ...I... got.
I got it all to pieces easy enough. BUT.... taking out the firing pin to scrub the channel or maybe inspect for glumps of crud?
Noop.
They show ways to twist the extractor and remove it.
uh-huh.
MY extractor don't know the TWIST.
AND I'm not dumb enough to FORCE a gun piece to come out if it REALLY doesn't want to.
And they say you put the GRIP SCREW in the plug in the slide and take out the firing pin.
Well, MINE has a slotted screw where EVERY i-net source says there shouldn't BE one.
So, thinks me, how about firing pin strike?
Well, the pix show what I think is adequate strike to fire any 22LR ctg around.
The one in the pic shows 2 indentations. The lesser one is from a round DRY FIRED while the BIG ole whack is from live fire.
Both look good enough to me.
( I use an empty from a session for a dummy to save the firing pin because I'm too cheap to pop for snap caps and I lose them anyway.)
So.... way too long story short.... I just ran some penetrating oil down the firing pin from the front and added some drops of oil to kinda work around.
Here's the pic of what MY Woodsman slide looks like from the bottom.
The first pic of all the crap is to prove that I ..did... take it all apart.
Now... has anyone seen a similar setup on a Woodsman that they actually took the firing pin out of?
I think I'm done now.