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Anybody have a rifle malfunction that made them say what!
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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1603638" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>Bought a Ruger 77 (old style, with the tang safety) that someone had put in a B&C stock and glass bedded at the recoil lug...and only at the recoil lug. At times, you would close the bolt and the firing pin would follow the bolt handle down. ***? It was baffling. After much investigating, I found that if you didn't put in the rear action screw, everything was fine. Put in the screw and tighten to 15 to 20 in/lbs, and the problem came back. Because the tang wasn't bedded, the rear screw was 'bending it' down enough to allow the sear to lose contact with the firing pin to where it wouldn't hold it in place; an 'accidental discharge' waiting to happen!</p><p></p><p>The seller was an honest and good man who had taken the gun in on trade and pointed all this out to me (thankfully) so I got a great rifle at a good price AND was able to fix the glitch without anyone being harmed. Ya gotta watch out for those used rifles. Sometimes you don't know what the previous owner did (or didn't do) to the gun.</p><p></p><p>Glass bedded the tang area and all is right with the world now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1603638, member: 9308"] Bought a Ruger 77 (old style, with the tang safety) that someone had put in a B&C stock and glass bedded at the recoil lug...and only at the recoil lug. At times, you would close the bolt and the firing pin would follow the bolt handle down. ***? It was baffling. After much investigating, I found that if you didn't put in the rear action screw, everything was fine. Put in the screw and tighten to 15 to 20 in/lbs, and the problem came back. Because the tang wasn't bedded, the rear screw was 'bending it' down enough to allow the sear to lose contact with the firing pin to where it wouldn't hold it in place; an 'accidental discharge' waiting to happen! The seller was an honest and good man who had taken the gun in on trade and pointed all this out to me (thankfully) so I got a great rifle at a good price AND was able to fix the glitch without anyone being harmed. Ya gotta watch out for those used rifles. Sometimes you don't know what the previous owner did (or didn't do) to the gun. Glass bedded the tang area and all is right with the world now. [/QUOTE]
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