Mauser bolt. HELP ME!!!

[deoxys987]

my mauser bolt was in the UP safety position when i dissasembled, but now its in the fire position, its DECOCKED but the firing pin safety and spring wont fit into the assembly, and i know how to recock, but it DOESNT WORK when its just the pin and spring. this needs to be UP How do i recock it when its like this!?!? HELP ME!!!!

[Paulie Lugnuts]

Google Mauser firing pin. I'm sure you'll find a video on how to do it. Its been a while since I did one, but I think the pin only goes in one way.

[deoxys987]

Google Mauser firing pin. I'm sure you'll find a video on how to do it. Its been a while since I did one, but I think the pin only goes in one way.

ive read read and read everything, i know how to recock it, but it needs to be locked into the assebmly, but it wont lock in, because the safety is in the fire position i need it in the up position im so confused

[oftenindeed]

Breathe-it will be ok!
Check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_-FnDhmAc
Skip to around 3:40. Follow the directions there. Make sure you're pressing down sufficiently.

[deoxys987]

Breathe-it will be ok!
Check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_-FnDhmAc
Skip to around 3:40. Follow the directions there. Make sure you're pressing down sufficiently.

i dont have that circular part on the rifle im freaking pissed at this thing help me!

[oftenindeed]

You can use a block of spare wood. If no wood, a few rags down a hard surface will do.

[OniKoroshi]

Bench vice?

[oftenindeed]

http://youtu.be/9xo0zHiC-cs

Again skip to 3:45

[Paulie Lugnuts]

Be careful you can break the tip of the firing pin off, I know This Canadian fellow has a good vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXoUkm0P-o.
What kind of Mauser are you working on?

[deoxys987]

http://youtu.be/9xo0zHiC-cs
Again skip to 3:45

his safety lever is in the up position mines in the fire position

[OHOD]

I was beginning to take apart my mauser bolt and stopped. I was like how the heck do I do this.

I'll probably go through what you did soon enough.

[oftenindeed]

his safety lever is in the up position mines in the fire position

At 7:50 in this video http://youtu.be/9xo0zHiC-cs you can see that the safety lever is freely mobile. You have to have it in the up position then. Push down and you can screw in the cocking piece. Is your cocking piece on or off because I don't know what you mean.

Paulie, I'm impressed that you broke off the firing pin tip. Those things are thick. What were you pressing against???

[deoxys987]

Breathe-it will be ok!
Check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_-FnDhmAc
Skip to around 3:40. Follow the directions there. Make sure you're pressing down sufficiently.

I feel like such an idiot, that worked...

[Calplinker]

Pictoral

Personally, I like the SurplusRifle.com, step by step pictorals over Youtube videos. Too often in the videos their hands are in the way. Sometimes the video commentary will help clear stuff up, so both together are usually golden.

SurplusRifle.com may be gone, but their stuff is still cached out there. Here's a working link for Mauser bolt disassembly and reassembly. I print out the rifle and bolt instructions for each of my Milsurp's, and for the ones I want, but have yet to buy.

If you look at the menu to the right, there's a working link to download a .pdf that you can save/print.

http://207.36.233.89/yugom48/index.asp

[Paulie Lugnuts]

Let's just say my downward force got a little bit sideways and I bent the tip of the pin over. Truthfully it didn't break off, but it might as well have. This was on our Argentine Mauser which doesn't have the hole in the stock. After I got another pin, I used our 98k stock hole to install it.