Two unusual ways the Mosin bolt gets sticky and how to remedy it
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After ignoring the M38 for 18 years and “accepting” it was a POS wartime production of something one step above a musket I took the bolt apart and Helen Kellered all the mating surfaces. They were smooth as glass I was pleasantly/unpleasantly surprised as this left only the spring. I cut half a coil off it and now this one flows like goose shit. I really did not want to cut that spring because every issue I’ve ever had with a firearm itself was spring related. The non-spring related issues were me.
While testing the bolt I found out that holding the rifle vertically in the left hand while using the stripper clip (pushing down with thumb w/o lifting the front of the top cartridge) radically improved the performance of the stripper clips.
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