The wife bought me a Fn 49 for my birthday. I got to admit it is a pretty sweet shooting single shot rifle. Though, I have heard that it is supposed to be a semi-auto I was hoping I could get some help figuring out how to make it semi-auto.
I am shooting ppu 8mm.It shoots great and cycles relatively easy manually. The brass comes out fine, so i suspect the gas system to be the problem.
1. I pulled the upper handguard and found that the gas adjustment sleeve was all the way forward completely covering the gas aperture. Of note, the gas sleeve turned easily without the need of a tool. I am not sure if this is normal
2. I checked piston and springs and did not see any obvious issues or
anything binding in any of the gas system.
3. Stumped, I resorted to the very un-american step of actually reading the manual. I am not impressed with whoever translated the manual to English but it did lead me to a potential culprit.
4. According to the manual "Turning 180 degrees the qas cylinder plug , cuts the inlet of the gas. The piston does not transmit any thrust on the bolt carrier. The rifle can then be used like a repeater by pulling the bolt carrier by hand."
Can anyone explain to me what the correct orientation of the plug is? I have not figured out how to even turn it.
The second question is what the heck do they mean by the rifle can be used as a repeater by hand pulling the bolt?
I am shooting ppu 8mm.It shoots great and cycles relatively easy manually. The brass comes out fine, so i suspect the gas system to be the problem.
1. I pulled the upper handguard and found that the gas adjustment sleeve was all the way forward completely covering the gas aperture. Of note, the gas sleeve turned easily without the need of a tool. I am not sure if this is normal
2. I checked piston and springs and did not see any obvious issues or
anything binding in any of the gas system.
3. Stumped, I resorted to the very un-american step of actually reading the manual. I am not impressed with whoever translated the manual to English but it did lead me to a potential culprit.
4. According to the manual "Turning 180 degrees the qas cylinder plug , cuts the inlet of the gas. The piston does not transmit any thrust on the bolt carrier. The rifle can then be used like a repeater by pulling the bolt carrier by hand."
Can anyone explain to me what the correct orientation of the plug is? I have not figured out how to even turn it.
The second question is what the heck do they mean by the rifle can be used as a repeater by hand pulling the bolt?
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