Need help with a Lakeffield

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I bought a Lakefield Mark 3 semi-auto. Tried it, but it would only shoot one shell and jam up on the spent shell. I gave it a real good clean and tried it, and same thing (It catches the spent shell). I searched Google and Numerich and could not find an exploded view of the break down on this gun. Nothing on Youtube also. The action only has one ejection arm, just questioning it? Anyone have one of these guns and could take a few pics of the action out of the gun? Thanks,Darcy
 
My dad has a Lakefield made rifle with no model number on it. It's almost identical to the Savage 64 as Savage bought the Lakefield plant and makes most of their 22's there. They got the semi design being produced there and just kept making them (but added a safety that my dads rifle lacks). There are various tutorials on disassembling a Savage 64 and I found they worked almost perfectly for my dads Lakefield. His had a similar issue where it would fire and stove pipe, even with CCI's. Turned out to be what looked like sand and thick, old, green grease built up inside the bolt making it incredibly stiff. I cleaned it out with brake cleaner, oiled it, and it worked fine with any high velocity (1200fps) ammo after that.

I remember disassembly being pretty involved and I believe I had to remove the barrel to do it? It's not an easy-to-work-on design.
 
Just watched a video of a Savage 64 break down. When re-assembling he held the ejection arm on the barrel and slide the barrel back into the action making sure to align the ejection arm into the action itself. Mine does not have this piece. I`ll snap some pics.
 
Yep, your barrel looks like it's missing an ejector, which is why the shell isn't going anywheres. Usually the shell with hit it while the bolt is recoiling and throws the spent shell clear.
I'm not familiar with the mark 3s, but it looks like maybe the 64 series ejector might work on it and they're not hard to get.

I think .22lrguy knows about these rifles more.
 
Lone-wolf, you are correct. I tore a Lakefield 64 apart and used the ejector and it worked flawless!. Now on the hunt for one. Darcy
 
Right on, glad to hear it.
I've purchased parts direct from savage years ago, for cheaper than anywhere else, but I'm not sure what the phone number is for that is anymore.
 
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