I hope that's a correct title. Background. Model 8 in 35 Rem, 1926 manufacture. I bought it a couple of months ago and have only had it out twice. Nice rifle, nice shape. Price was low. Paid $329.00. May know why now.
Rifle chambers normally most of the time but sometimes gets stuck about 1" short of chambering a round. Experienced this the first time I shot the rifle so I took the bolt apart to look for missing or damaged parts. I didn't find any, but now understand the principle of how the bolt works. I also may not recognize a damaged part. I have fired 4 rounds without failure at times, so the problem is intermittent. Yesterday I was loading a 5th in the chamber by hand and both times it failed, it failed after the second round fired. That would have been the first round loaded in the magazine.
See the first photo taken as the rifle was after the failure. EDIT: The round partially in the chamber in the first photograph is the next live round. The fired round was extracted/ejected normally. I was able to remove all of the rounds by pulling the bolt back to the locked position. But, the condition, whatever it was, was not resolved and the bolt still stopped in that same position. See the second photograph.
Just by fiddling around, opening the bolt to bolt lock and rotating the rifle, the condition cleared itself. I have no idea what changed. My initial suspicion were the pins that rotate the bolt to the lock/unlock position. But I really have no basis for that other than the condition appeared to clear by rotating the rifle. I know the pins have some in/out movement in their holes.
The third photograph shows the bolt held back by my hand after the condition cleared. But if I let the bolt go in the third picture it would close normally. I don't see any difference between when the bolt had the issue and when it did not. I'm sure there is not enough information right now to diagnose the problem. I'm just hoping to figure a way to replicate the problem again and maybe things to look for. I'm searching for a rod so I can cycle the action by pushing the barrel back instead of operating it with the bolt handle. The condition has only occurred while firing the rifle. I have never been able to replicate it by operating the bolt by hand.
Rifle chambers normally most of the time but sometimes gets stuck about 1" short of chambering a round. Experienced this the first time I shot the rifle so I took the bolt apart to look for missing or damaged parts. I didn't find any, but now understand the principle of how the bolt works. I also may not recognize a damaged part. I have fired 4 rounds without failure at times, so the problem is intermittent. Yesterday I was loading a 5th in the chamber by hand and both times it failed, it failed after the second round fired. That would have been the first round loaded in the magazine.
See the first photo taken as the rifle was after the failure. EDIT: The round partially in the chamber in the first photograph is the next live round. The fired round was extracted/ejected normally. I was able to remove all of the rounds by pulling the bolt back to the locked position. But, the condition, whatever it was, was not resolved and the bolt still stopped in that same position. See the second photograph.
Just by fiddling around, opening the bolt to bolt lock and rotating the rifle, the condition cleared itself. I have no idea what changed. My initial suspicion were the pins that rotate the bolt to the lock/unlock position. But I really have no basis for that other than the condition appeared to clear by rotating the rifle. I know the pins have some in/out movement in their holes.
The third photograph shows the bolt held back by my hand after the condition cleared. But if I let the bolt go in the third picture it would close normally. I don't see any difference between when the bolt had the issue and when it did not. I'm sure there is not enough information right now to diagnose the problem. I'm just hoping to figure a way to replicate the problem again and maybe things to look for. I'm searching for a rod so I can cycle the action by pushing the barrel back instead of operating it with the bolt handle. The condition has only occurred while firing the rifle. I have never been able to replicate it by operating the bolt by hand.
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