One Piece Firing Pin 1895

[GregLaROCHE]

I finally got around to replacing the two part firing pin with a solid one on my Marlin 1895 45/70. I didn’t have any instructions and couldn’t find anything for the 1895 one piece pin on the internet. It wasn’t that complicated, but I wasn’t sure about the flat spring that went with the two part pin. I assumed it wasn’t needed, so I didn’t use it. Everything seems to function correctly, but I haven’t fired it yet. Did I do the right thing leaving the flat spring out?

Also, I got a new coil spring along with the new pin. Is the new one stiffer or less stiff?

Thanks

[Sgt H]

It has been a long time since I owned an 1895 Marlin. Had one of the first ones when they brought them out in the 1970's. Foolishly traded it away and wish I had it back. I do have experience with several 1894's and to the best of my knowledge the same type of 2 piece firing pin is used in them. The sole purpose of the little flat spring is to push the rear portion of the firing pin out of alignment with the front part as soon as the locking bolt drops even slightly out of battery, thus preventing out of battery firing. The ones for my 1894's came with a bit lighter spring and made a noticeable improvement in the trigger pull.

[Bruce in WV]

I just replaced the 2-piece firing pin in my 1894 Marlin CBC with the Long Hunter titanium kit (one piece firing pin and spring kit) as a future reliability preventative maintenance step. It came with clear instructions to remove the two roll pins, the 2 pieces of the OEM firing pin and flat spring, insert the new firing pin and put in the two roll pins. (It did not specify a roll pin punch, but that will help not peen the edge of the roll pins when you put the pins back in.) I did not use the lighter hammer spring included in the kit since primer hardness might be a crap shoot if you have to use whatever you can find.
I took the rifle to the range this morning for a function test and had no misfires.