Help with Mauser bolt problem. PLEEEEASE

[rocinante]

I had the lever in fire position, pressed the detention, and rotated it counter clock. It is stuck. Can't move the lever to safe which per my cleaning instructions is where I need it to be to disassemble the bolt. The sucker is full of cosmoline.

Help a mauser misfit out. I am here to them. Oh on a lighter note I managed to get the bolt stuck to the inside of my finger, pinching the flesh in a painful manner with that blade that runs the length of the bolt. Took me a few excruciating minutes to figure out how to escape. HURT!!! I guess I can really call it an assault rifle because it attacked me!!

 

[R.W.Dale]

Try using the edge if a table against the sear pressing downward on the body to recompress the FP spring. Then use your third hand to rotate the cocking piece back into the FIRE position

 

[Slamfire]

I got a GEW bolt out to see what the heck you did.

If you did not have the safety in the halfway position, then when you rotated the sleeve counter clock wise, the firing pin went forward into the cocking cam.

If you have a bench vise, open the jaws, and close them on the sides of the firing pin sear. Then pull the firing pin out of the cocking cam. It will be under spring tension. Pull it out far enough so you can flip the safety to its halfway position. When the safety is halfway up the firing pin is now being held back, and you can unscrew the assembly.

 

[rocinante]

Slamfire1 that is exactly what I did. Thanks for using more precise terminology. So far to me they are all thangamajigs. I will try to follow your advise but I am not getting a good mental picture and I don't know what are the parts you named. I can figure that last part out.

 

[rocinante]

If it is in the cocked position is there a way just to 'fire' it?

 

[rocinante]

Easy enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRL-RmoGdwM

 

[Mr_Pale_Horse]

Sounds like you unlatched the bolt, and let it decock outside of the rifle. If the firing pin is through the bolt boltface, that is a sure sign. A work bench edge is usually sturdy enough to catch the sear, compress the firing pin spring and allow you to push the cocking piece back for enough to re-engage the safety in the vertical postion. Then you can work the latch to rotate and remove the firing pin, shroud, spring and cocking piece and safety.