KennyB
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I've just recently inherited a rifle from my passed away grandfather. It appears to be a H&H .465 SxS "Royal Hammerless Ejector". The rifle has been left uncare for a long period of time but still in excellent condition. Without proper knowledge & carefulness, I tried to clean and oil the rifle by taking off the foreend, barrel & receiver. However, I accidentally dryfire the receiver portion before assemble all the parts back together. The rifle (only receiver part) then turns to UNCOCKING state and that makes me unable to put the foreend back in its place. So now I can't assemble those 3 parts back together and feel so worried about it.
I'm writing to ask for help because this rifle is old and no one seems to know or understand its mechanism. Is there a way to make the rifle in COCK position again so that I can put the foreend back in?
Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
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bonanza
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Well, you have one fine rifle.
I did that once and it was a bitch to figure out. Since you are not going to do any shooting for a while, find someone with a cocking tool. Why? That's a $50,000+ rifle and you don't want to fuck it up. The tool will re-cock the hammers and all will be well.
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KennyB
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bonanza, thanks for your suggestion. I'm afraid that I can't find anyone that has a cocking tool. Isn't there another way around that I can cock the rifle without the tool? I'm all by myself here.
By the way, I wonder how the cocking tool look like? how does it work?
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Anonymous
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Kenny,
Since you say you are by yourself there, and are not familiar with working on such a gun...
I suggest you place the lock plate on a sturdy table, put it between a cloth, hold it with both hands, use your thumb over a small portion of the cloth, and push the hammer back until it clicks and locks back in place. Both sides must be cocked, in order for you to reassemble the gun. Be careful not push the main spring around, just hold the outer portion of the plate while pushing the hammers back in place.
Hope this helps.
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KennyB
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Sinner, thanks for your suggestion as well.
Yesterday I tried to examine the rifle again very carefully to see if I might have missed something. Without disassembling any parts I noticed that this rifle has its ejecting mechanism inside the foreend and it seems movable.
So instead of focusing on how to cock the hammer, I learn that there should be a way to move the ejectors in to another position which on the other hand I can say that I had to 'cock' the foreend.
All I have to do is that I grab the foreend and turn the ejectors against the edge of a wooden table and push them down. Then I hear a click!
Yes! it works. I can assemble all 3 pieces together and the rifle now is back in one piece and working again.. 
-- case closed -- Thank you everyone for reading my story.
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