corbinace
05-19-2018, 03:52 AM
Can someone please help me with a firing pin question on a Swedish roller.
I am considering a rifle online that is said to have the firing pin "frozen".
There seem to be different breech blocks on these rifles. The one in question has the smaller thumb spur, a screw that goes all the way through from left to right (though from the pic I cannot tell if the bottom of the screw goes completely through block).
My first though is that there could not be too much wrong with it. Maybe rusted in place, or the spring broken, or the aft end of pin mushroomed a bit and hammered/bound into the firing pin bore. What else is there?
I have never seen one of these in person, so I just do not know what could be wrong.
Am I just looking at this through rose colored glasses and about to waste my dollars, or is it likely minor and no big deal?
The rifle looks nice otherwise and mostly fits what I am looking for in a 12.7x44R roller.
Thanks, Tim.
I am considering a rifle online that is said to have the firing pin "frozen".
There seem to be different breech blocks on these rifles. The one in question has the smaller thumb spur, a screw that goes all the way through from left to right (though from the pic I cannot tell if the bottom of the screw goes completely through block).
My first though is that there could not be too much wrong with it. Maybe rusted in place, or the spring broken, or the aft end of pin mushroomed a bit and hammered/bound into the firing pin bore. What else is there?
I have never seen one of these in person, so I just do not know what could be wrong.
Am I just looking at this through rose colored glasses and about to waste my dollars, or is it likely minor and no big deal?
The rifle looks nice otherwise and mostly fits what I am looking for in a 12.7x44R roller.
Thanks, Tim.