.22lr contender barrel

[jmorris]

figured it out.

[Hamish]

party pooper

[725]

Man, this site is good! Can't get faster answers than that.

[jmorris]

party pooper

I had built a .22 LR barrel and the reamer came in yesterday. After that was done I had dykemed the barrel and noticed the firing pin was contacting the barrel.

As many times as I measured the factory TC barrels I have I couldn't see where I had made a mistake. So I put a spent case in the barrel and switched it over to centerfire and it was perfectly centered.

So this thread was asking for a photo of the chamber end of a factory barrel. I was texted a photo and could see that TC notched the barrel to clear the firing pin. After a few seconds I realized they likely did this so it worked with LR and mag diameter rimfires.

[leadman]

The firing pins should be retracted by a small spring on the firing pin. These get gunked up and have to be cleaned. There is a screw in the frame in front of the hammer that holds the breech block in. could this be your problem?