Hello everyone,
Hope this finds you well! Some context first, I'm a little frenchy from the other side of the atlantic (duh), and I must have paused one too many western saying how I loved 1866s that my wife decided to gift me one, the replica by Miroku in 44-40.
Cue delivery, I get some snap caps, load them into the tube, work the action and... It's stuck. It won't close all the way. Or it will, if I put so much force on it that what I gather is the extractor clips off the edge of the snap cap rim.
Here's the problem:
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Now, everything firearms related is more complicated this side of the ocean, even more so when you start buying "exotic" rifles such as this one.
I don't want to send it back to the gunsmith yet (it's an internet purchase, had to scour the internet to find one in stock).
I put my thinking cap on: apparently it's no longer in production so it may have sat a long time at the gunsmith before it finally got to me. Okay, maybe the extractor piece is stuck in dried oil or something and I just need to properly service the thing.
Fair enough, I end up here (there precisely:
https://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?topic=60445.0), try to find some schematics and learn as much as I can before I take it apart (thank you so much OD#3!!).
I take everything apart, get the bolt, oil it, test that the extractor moves, everything seems fine. I assemble it back. Still no luck.
I am starting to come to terms that I'll have to send it back but this is frustrating. I feel like I can fix it, I just don't know what it is because I never had it functioning. Is it the extractor? Is it suppose to be able to move more than it does? Is it something else, like the ammo not presenting the right way for the bolt to latch onto it?
If anyone knows the issue here, I would be much appreciative.
Cheers from France!