Browning A5 dissassembly help

[Keeperfaith]

I'm trying to take down my buddies browning A5 for a thorough cleaning.
I've got it broken down but I'm stumped at removing the bolt.

The YouTube videos show clearly how to remove the bolt cross pin. They make it look easy but I've bent a brass and steel punch trying to tap this cross pin out of the bolt and through the take down hole in the receiver.

It is lined up properly but the damn thing is stubborn.

Any advice...

Thanks
Steve

 

[rcmodel]

No beating on an A-5 please.

Hold down on the locking block latch on the bottom of the bolt and the pin should push right out.

rc

 

[mike.h]

No beating on an A-5 please.

Please,

 

[Kp321]

The punch goes through the takedown hole in the receiver, not the pin. There is a small notch in the ledge in the bottom of the ejection port that the pin slides through. Left to right.

 

[Keeperfaith]

I got it through. The punch I had was too thin. I bought a new appropriate sized punch and it drifted the pin out like butter.

The thing is gunked up something aweful!!

My buddy said the gun belonged to his dad and it hasn't been broken down for a thorough cleaning in over 30 yrs.

And RC, I didn't beat the A-5.

I'm really liking this gun, gonna look for one at the pawn shops...
Thanks
Steve

 

[loose noose]

Funny you should mention a Browning A-5, I just got one in a cardboard box, with springs, screws, pins, bolts, and miscellaneous pieces, and the customer wanted it cleaned and re-assembled. Believe it or not all the parts were there, but I saw first hand, what the varnish that WD-40 will do to a gun when left in a firearm for an extended period of time. Needless to say the gun is completely cleaned and re-assembled, and the customer is completely satisfied, after being admonished about the use of WD-40, and taking a gun completely apart and placing it in a cardboard box.

 

[hentown]

I shoot a Lt 12 A5 that's 50-yrs-old. Never used WD-40 on it, and never disassembled and cleaned it but once. It just never fails, but it sure does thump my shoulder!

 

[fecmech]

I bought a Lt 20 new back in 1965 as my first "good gun". Shot it for years in skeet, hunting and still today sporting clays. Because of the skeet I know the gun conservatively had fired over 70K rounds when a couple years back it broke a firing pin. Never cleaned the internals of the action and as long as the shell went bang and friction rings set correctly it functioned just fine. When I took it apart for the pin there was all kinds of junk in that action. Pieces if brass,shot, powder and gunk and like the Timex watch it kept on ticking! It was like I was cleaning out the valley pan on a hundred thousand mile V8 engine. John Browning definitely new his craft.