Anyone have a trick for re-installing the main spring in a Handi-Rifle? I only found one YouTube video, and it isn't very user-friendly. I had to replace the other spring (lifter spring). That was no problem, but the main one is another matter.
Installing mainspring in Handi-Rifle
- Thread starter Papaclaude
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Check out Graybeard Outdoors forum. They have tons of info on the Handi rifles in the H&R CenterRifle section.
You might have to dig through it but I'm sure they have some info on what you want to do.
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/108-h-r-centerfire-rifles/19157-faqs-help-please-read.html
You might have to dig through it but I'm sure they have some info on what you want to do.
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/108-h-r-centerfire-rifles/19157-faqs-help-please-read.html
Mine is actually a Buffalo Rifle. I thought it was the same action as the Handi-Rifle, but it looks different from mine. I found one YT video, but the part on the mainspring is pretty crappy. There has to be a way to re-install it. Otherwise, anyone know a good gunsmith near Ottawa that could do it?
- Location
- Kawartha Lakes area of Ont
Jason Spencer Gunco
OK, so, I've been able to do it. I have a sneaky feeling that they #### the spring through the stock bolt hole, but anyhow, the video I found showed the guy using a 3/32 punch to push the string back. But after about 7,311,285 tries, that didn't work so well, so I used a very small round file and a triangular one to file a small notch in my punch, so the spring doesn't slip out, and it went in fairly easily.
