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Wiley

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When I was function testing and lowering the trigger pull weight on my newest 541T I was using brass previously fired in a 541S for my snap caps. The T would not extract that brass after a trigger pull. So, I inspected the bolt and the extractir appeared to be somewhat worn. No worries, I have a few spares. Swap out the extractor claw and it doesn't help. I had already borescoped the thing and was surprised that there wasn't a carbon ring in the chamber where the bullet and brass meet and the entire chamber appeared to be very clean with no anomalies visible. The next step was to chuck a short section of cleaning rod in a drill and put a 22 rimfire bronze brush on. Just a couple of squeezes on the trigger and the spent brass extracted reliably. Then it was off to my range for some target time. And........ it won't chamber rounds from the magazine so I shoot single shot style and she shoots very good. When I got back home I got another 541 out and cycled ammo from the magazines that came with the new rifle. The magazines fed flawlessly, thus eliminating them as the feed issue. Next step was to put the old extractor back in and just like that she fed flawlessly from any magazine that I put in it. Now I gotta get back over to the pond and see if she extracts but with the chamber brushed out I believe she will even though I didn't see a single thing that would cause extraction issues before or after the chamber brushing. I believe this rifle has a really tight chamber and has to be kept really clean.

Oh yeah, I pick up another 541T Sporter tomorrow. The rabbit hole is DEEP 😁
 
MUP said:
Definitely try firing new rounds and see how it performs. Waiting on the results!
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I'm gonna invest in a few more spare parts while they're being made. The T was the last of the 541 rifles to be made and it was discontinued in 1990 I believe. A few parts are available as new and a few are old stock from back then but ALL are getting in shorter supply as time goes on.
 
I didn't really want to drive over to the range for complete function testing since I moved the shooting table to a hunnerd yards the other day so........ I took a cardboard box and put a couple of short sections of 4x4 blocks in it and wrapped in WM bags to hold it all together inside the box and set it in my kitchen floor 😁 The T functions flawlessly! YAY!
 
Wiley said:
I didn't really want to drive over to the range for complete function testing since I moved the shooting table to a hunnerd yards the other day so........ I took a cardboard box and put a couple of short sections of 4x4 blocks in it and wrapped in WM bags to hold it all together inside the box and set it in my kitchen floor 😁 The T functions flawlessly! YAY!
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Adapt, improvise, overcome! 👍🏼
 
Tenntrapper said:
He obviously ain't married!! 😂 😂
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When I was a teenager, I used to go fishing with an old grandpa that lived near me, and when he was a teenager, he used to go fishing with an old grandpa that he lived by, and he told me one day, that the old grandpa he fished with had been married for 50 years, and he asked him what that was like. And what he told me the old grandpa had to say was, "when we first got married, I'd put my ear down there, and pull it apart and listen to it snap back together, and now I put my ear down there, and pull it together, and listen to it snap back apart."
 

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