The most difficult action U have disassembled

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What is the hardest/most difficult rifle action that you have taken down and re-assembled. The other day I dropped the falling block action out of my Ruger #1H Tropical. It came apart ok but after cleaning putting it back was a SOB. Normally I am very good with rifle workings but I had to go for the Excedren bottle on this one. I left a note to myself to forever more to clean the action only with gun scrubber and lube with spray oil on Ruger #1's. This should have been simple....but it drove me crazy. I am sure there are other brain stomper actions out there.
 
Used a lot of vocabulary that doesn't come up often in my day-to-day speech the first time I tore down a Colt Lightning pump rifle (the accumulated crud, dried-to-varnish oil and rust didn't make matters any easier).
Not having any directions and having to work it out myself probably wasn't an aid, either.
 
I've got a pump shotgun, and old Savage Springfield that I refuse to take down. About once every five years I take it to the gunsmith and have him detail strip it, clean, lube, and re-assemble.
 
TRy either a ...

Winchester 88 or 100. Those designers were DEVIOUS!


But I got mine to place three round into the "X-ring" of std 200 yds target from prone, with my hunting load.
 
Walther KKJ with the old safety. There is no online manual available, or info, on how to disassemble the bolt.

With a manual dis- and reassembly is easy but I think reassembly of the 10/22 without a manual might prove tricky, also.
 
Winchester 190. It's not difficult to get it apart, but getting it back together is a pain beyond imagining. It's nearly impossible to get the very thin, very long recoil spring into what seems like an impossibly small space, some people recommend all sorts of weird methods like straightening out coat hangers and using them to guide the spring home, but even that proved difficult to pull off. The rifle seems very, very reliable and decently accurate too for what it is, but after that first disassembly and reassembly, I sold it off.
 
A Rem nylon 66 is an interesting experience.Its been so long,I have forgotten eveything.Seems like slave pins helped.I mostly remember lets not do this again.
 
Its really not hard, but the first time I took down a 10/22 it was pretty frustrating to get back together.
My ruger mkII is the one that gives me headaches...
 
Mine was a Browning B-78 (single shot, high wall falling-block). It took me three days to figure out how to get it back together. I mentioned this to a gunsmith who said: "You did pretty good...it took me three weeks to get one back together."
 
The worst one for me was an old Lee Enfield No.4 MkI that I broke at least three screw drivers and an assortment of bits trying to get completely disassembled. Every screw and bolt on that thing was cemented in with who knows what. I didn't think I'd ever break them loose. I guess the equivalent of whatever 1940's locktite was called plus 70 years of sitting around didn't help anything.
 
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