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Matt85
05-13-2013, 02:54 AM
as mentioned in my previous thread I recently bought an original trapdoor rifle. well I decided to take the thing apart for its first clean in who knows how many decades. I gave the rifles parts a good soak in CLP and got every thing about as clean as its going to get without major restoration work which is actually pretty good looking. the problem came up when I began putting the gun back together. I cant get the dang ejector back in! I don't consider myself a weak guy but the spring that puts tension on the ejector is seriously powerful.

can any one tell me the trick to getting the ejector back in a 1884/1888 trapdoor rifle?

thank you
-matt

Matt85
05-13-2013, 04:32 AM
answered my own question by doing some searching. here is a link to the answer: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?150210-Trapdoor-extractor-ejector-assembly

thanks all
-matt

StrawHat
05-15-2013, 07:06 AM
Glad you found the answer. Good use of the search function.