I bought a PTG bolt and had the bolt handl tigged on. This week I took the action and trued it using the PtG kit and reamed the raceway. Everything went okay and I got done chambering and assembling the rifle a day or so ago. Today I finally got around to shooting it. About round 16 the bolt would not open. It would cam up and pull back about 1/4 inch then would not budge. Rather than trying to hammer it open I decided to pull the trigger and take a look. Nothing was amiss. I then decided to pull the barrel to see if I could tell what was wrong. That is where I found it. That little pin that holds the extractor in had slid 1/2 way out of the bolt and was hanging on one of the lugs. Took a few minutes and a few improvised tools but I finally got it shoved back in enough so that I could run a tiny punch through the action screw hole and tap it back in place.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what caused it to slip out like that. I am guessing that I went just a tad too far when I tapped it into place the first time, but it felt normal. Anyway it was a new way to screw up that I had never heard of, just thought I would pass it along in case it happens to someone else.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what caused it to slip out like that. I am guessing that I went just a tad too far when I tapped it into place the first time, but it felt normal. Anyway it was a new way to screw up that I had never heard of, just thought I would pass it along in case it happens to someone else.
