What's the easiest firearm you've ever disassembled?
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jimbob1911, you don't vote for glock because it requires you to pull the trigger? You don't have to have your hand in front of the barrel when you do so, I wouldn't dry fire practice with my hand in front of the barrel either!
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230RN, its really simple, place MH on a rag (to keep it in place) depress plunger with strut then use fireing pin to push out keeper pin carefully let up on plunger and there ya are.
Rifleman, take that Stevens/Savage single shot bolt apart, I don't know bout most but I usually gotta fight with the two piece striker assembly, getting the pin in and out of the cocking piece ain't no picnic either, I got more than a few scars on my hand from the fireing pin punctureing it
And I was being a smarta$$ with the Blackpowder giving countglockula a hard time, actually the SIMPLEST 20th century rifle would be a NEF single shot break action and it will actually cover rifle or shotgun catagories and yes they are current production, more modern? go detail strip an L1A1......... semi auto version, only tool needed is a loaded 7.62x51 round and that does include trigger group disassembly and full bolt group disassembly now to remove the plastic stock set ya will need to add a quarter and any rifle cleaning rod to the tools needed....... easiest modern Battle rifle to detail strip, no excess of clips,springs or pins found in an AR etc... And since the bolt can be dissasembled without a drift it beats out the AK besided the AK will require a real screw driver to remove the stock screws.... if not for the gas piston being riveted on the AK and the countersunk screws it would win... but if ya drive out that rivet ya are gonna need a new one to replace it for reassembly.....
230RN, its really simple, place MH on a rag (to keep it in place) depress plunger with strut then use fireing pin to push out keeper pin carefully let up on plunger and there ya are.
Rifleman, take that Stevens/Savage single shot bolt apart, I don't know bout most but I usually gotta fight with the two piece striker assembly, getting the pin in and out of the cocking piece ain't no picnic either, I got more than a few scars on my hand from the fireing pin punctureing it
And I was being a smarta$$ with the Blackpowder giving countglockula a hard time, actually the SIMPLEST 20th century rifle would be a NEF single shot break action and it will actually cover rifle or shotgun catagories and yes they are current production, more modern? go detail strip an L1A1......... semi auto version, only tool needed is a loaded 7.62x51 round and that does include trigger group disassembly and full bolt group disassembly now to remove the plastic stock set ya will need to add a quarter and any rifle cleaning rod to the tools needed....... easiest modern Battle rifle to detail strip, no excess of clips,springs or pins found in an AR etc... And since the bolt can be dissasembled without a drift it beats out the AK besided the AK will require a real screw driver to remove the stock screws.... if not for the gas piston being riveted on the AK and the countersunk screws it would win... but if ya drive out that rivet ya are gonna need a new one to replace it for reassembly.....
Bolts -- Mauser 98k and M/N 91/30 are both pretty simple. Just have a chunk of lumber around to push on the Mauser bolt.
Semi -- I'd rather take my M1A apart than my Garand, just because of the lifter-dealie (what's that thing called??) in the Garand, but they're both easy enough, with a combo tool.
For pistols, I've only taken my Glock 17 down to atoms once, and had a helluva time getting it back together. My 1911's however, are simple and require no tools. My vote goes for the 1911.
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Semi -- I'd rather take my M1A apart than my Garand, just because of the lifter-dealie (what's that thing called??) in the Garand, but they're both easy enough, with a combo tool.
For pistols, I've only taken my Glock 17 down to atoms once, and had a helluva time getting it back together. My 1911's however, are simple and require no tools. My vote goes for the 1911.
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Oh...I don't know about the NEF single shots being 'simple' to detail strip. The last (and only) one I've played with had very few parts but the receiver pins were an absolute bugger to remove.
In fact, I gave up getting them out (for fear of damaging the finish) and had the fellow send it back to the factory for the repair. Most things I fix if it is easier than the hassle of sending back to Mother, but those pins were IN there.
There are directions on-line that refer to a fixture to hold the receiver so you can apply MEGA FORCE to them to get them out..but I took the easy way out. I am weak.....
In pistols my vote must go to JMB's 1911. No special tools and few but robust parts. Nice. Sigs have pins within pins that require making try-pins to assemble and are NO WHERE as simple as the 1911.
Mosin-Nagant's are probably the choice in rifles. How could you make it less complicated?
In fact, I gave up getting them out (for fear of damaging the finish) and had the fellow send it back to the factory for the repair. Most things I fix if it is easier than the hassle of sending back to Mother, but those pins were IN there.
There are directions on-line that refer to a fixture to hold the receiver so you can apply MEGA FORCE to them to get them out..but I took the easy way out. I am weak.....
In pistols my vote must go to JMB's 1911. No special tools and few but robust parts. Nice. Sigs have pins within pins that require making try-pins to assemble and are NO WHERE as simple as the 1911.
Mosin-Nagant's are probably the choice in rifles. How could you make it less complicated?
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the ruger gp100, which is also the only gun i have taken apart to the last piece. some of the parts take care of themselves, say goodbye to the little spring loaded plungers as they whizz past you're shoulder on their way to nowhere!
but a total newbie did it with just the users manual.
but a total newbie did it with just the users manual.
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1911, but in fairness I have not had the opportunity to strip a glock as so many have. I would think the trigger and its springs would be more tricky
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French MAS 36, One of these makes a Moisin look like a regular Rube Goldberg
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Makarov
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1911 no questions
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Had to pull the trigger on my mauser to disasemble it to. Like I said above never done a glock but having to pull the trigger isn't as big a deal as it seams.
Had to pull the trigger on my mauser to disasemble it to. Like I said above never done a glock but having to pull the trigger isn't as big a deal as it seams.
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My AR and my Glock would fit that fill
dstorm1911
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recoilrob,to remove reciever pins dead blow hammer with a brass work block with a hole in it under the reciever, the brass will mar the reciever but will wipe right off with a lil hoppes #9 or other suitable bore cleaner (lead is an ingrediant in brass and bore cleaner will dissolve it. use a quality drift drift punch not a cheap harbor freight one, once the pins have been removed they will come out easier in the future.... I build AKs for entertainment, ya want tough pins remove a few Rommy "G" kit barrel pins
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SKS, not detailed strip though, whenever I see pictures of detailed strips, well they just scare me
230RN
2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
"I dunno, Pop. I was just looking at it and it fell apart."
dstorm1911 and ajax
I don't want to belabor the point, but...
I didn't think it was hard to take apart. I was mainly concerned about getting it back together. It feels like that's a pretty strong spring down in there.
Do you need three hands and a slave pin, or did St. John make it easy --just place the parts together, press down on plunger, and insert pin? Or do you have to somehow "guide" the plunger and spring into the hole as you compress the spring?
This goes back to the question of "how long is the spring relative to the hole in the housing?" If it hangs out past the hole, the operation might be difficult.
I've had to squirgle* long springs back into holes before, and sometimes it ain't fun.
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* Squirgle is a technical term oft-used by machinists.
dstorm1911 and ajax
I don't want to belabor the point, but...
I didn't think it was hard to take apart. I was mainly concerned about getting it back together. It feels like that's a pretty strong spring down in there.
Do you need three hands and a slave pin, or did St. John make it easy --just place the parts together, press down on plunger, and insert pin? Or do you have to somehow "guide" the plunger and spring into the hole as you compress the spring?
This goes back to the question of "how long is the spring relative to the hole in the housing?" If it hangs out past the hole, the operation might be difficult.
I've had to squirgle* long springs back into holes before, and sometimes it ain't fun.
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* Squirgle is a technical term oft-used by machinists.
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rifle has to be model 70. and how easy is the 870 to take apart! try a model 88 if u want areal headache.
Makarov has been the easier handgun I've field stripped, minus the extractor although I have replaced a barrel in one. Time consuming but not difficult.
Mosin Nagant has been the simplest rifle, provided I had enough umph to remove some of the screws that were fastened with Super Cosmoline.
jm
Mosin Nagant has been the simplest rifle, provided I had enough umph to remove some of the screws that were fastened with Super Cosmoline.
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