Oh Crap - My Mauser Bolt Won't Install - Now what

[jeffs]

This applies to all Mausers - German, Check, Yugo, Persian, Turkish, South American, Swedish, Chinese, whatever, 93, 94, 95, 96 & 98 patterns. This is an -03 Turk ('98 pattern) from my future sporter projects bin.

OK Quick Review of function.

Here's the Mauser Safety in the FIRE mode. You can operate the bolt and fire the rifle:



Here it is in the LOCKED mode. You cannot operate the bolt nor fire the rifle:



Here it is in the SAFE mode. You can operate the bolt but not fire the rifle:



It is important that the safety is in the SAFE mode to remove or disassemble the bolt.

In this mode the cocking piece is held a distance away from the end of the bolt body:



Oh crap - mine looks like this:



And the cocking piece is touching the bolt body:



Woe is me, I guess I need to scrap it and buy a new rifle - Sigh! Not to worry - it's easy to fix. Simply hook the cocking piece on the edge of your bench like this:



Pull down to compress the firing pin spring some more until some space appears between the cocking piece and the safety here:



Then you can raise the safety to the SAFE position and let the cocking piece rest on the safety.

[Travis]

Anymore I'm late to a lot of threads. But Thanks to JeffS for sharing this info. with us.