I received my '51 Colt 2nd generation Colt R&D conversion that I bought from an indiviidual yesterday. After shooting a few rounds through it I removed the barrel and cylinder to clean it and when I tried to put the cylinder back on the bolt was up and I could not of course get the cylinder back on. I do not remember now if it was at full cock or not but anyway I got the bolt down and assembled it, but now the bolt will not rise.
What the heck did I do to it and is there something simple that needs to be done to correct this.
Something else I noticed when shooting it. I loaded 5 rounds and was checking for accuracy and lost count of how many I shot and when I dry fired it on the empty chamber the firing pin stuck in the forward position and I had to use a thin knife blade to push it back. Is this normal or should the pin be looser than that?
Thanks for any help you can give.