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Japchester firing pin
23 is the rebound spring - goes in first - over the striker part of the firing pin. I left this in but in mine it serves NO useful purpose, the ears on the lever retract the firing pin off of the primer just like an original
the little bit with the leg up and leg down was the offender and perhaps if I pulled the bolt and gave it a good soak in degreaser may have fixed the problem. the leg up engages in a groove in the internals of the bolt (spring loaded) allowing the leg down to form a block in the innards of the pin and that carries the strike through to the firing pin from the floating bit at the back that the hammer strikes . I got rid of the tricky little pieces and turned a piece of a drill shank to convert it to solid - a bit of filing at the back to get correct engagement with the hammer. If I was carrying this rifle in bear country (we dont have bears) i would do this for mod sure.