| 4seventy |
| (Sponsor) |
| 07/04/11 03:18 PM |
Re: Mauser 98 from 1925.
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The barreled action of this cob {forget the FN or Zastava bolt} has been leaned on by somebody with lots of time on their hands and a good stack of sandpaper close by.
That bolt looks like trouble to me.
It "looks" in the photos that the bolt handle is fully down against the bottom of the receiver notch.
But the bolt body is NOWHERE near fully rotated into the closed position. You can see the guide rib is showing above the extractor.
If that is the case I doubt the gun would even fire, as the bolt needs to be fully rotated/closed for the cocking piece to be able to clear the cocking cam, and allow the striker to reach the primer. CLICK!
Headspace could be interesting as well.