New Gevarm E1's.....

[crosman177]

Mine came in yesterday from more guns.

I really like the speckled paint job. Bore appears to be good, but have not yet cleaned it.

The stick mag was rusty at lip and inside channel, cleaned up nice with brillo and hoppes.

Havn't figured out how to remove the bolt tho? an easy explanation would be nice..

 

[cantom]

Mine came in yesterday from more guns.

I really like the speckled paint job. Bore appears to be good, but have not yet cleaned it.

The stick mag was rusty at lip and inside channel, cleaned up nice with brillo and hoppes.

Havn't figured out how to remove the bolt tho? an easy explanation would be nice..

If I remember right...take the two halves apart with the big takedown screw. There is a little button you push while squeezing the trigger and the bolt comes out ahead...very easy.
The spring guide assembly can go in either way, it's an adjustment to bolt weight depending on what ammo you use. Read the caution about the guns blowing up with heavy ammo earlier in the thread.

 

[Can-down]

Push the lever at the mag well forward (not the mag release), this will allow the bolt to go further ahead....now hold the bolt against the spring pressure with your finger while you remove the bolt handle freeing the bolt.

 

[cantom]

Bump- thanks for the pics!

OK I think I see what you are saying and I think thats the way I had it...
Here's a picture showing how I had it today.

Here's a picture of the three mags, 20 round and 15 (took 14) and the 8
the 20 rounder is the one with the lower follower.

 

[cantom]

The thing about Gevarms is, the magazine lip is the ejector.....they are dead simple, very few parts, but the mags have to be just right.

I had similar issues with the factory 20 and aftermarket 20's I had.

The only mag I ever had that worked well were the factory 8's.

I hope whoever repopped these mags took the requirement for ejection into account in their design.

Some good stuff in this thread including pics showing the issues.

 

[cantom]

Note! Experience talking here!

I've had 2 gevarms for the last 25 years now. One in .22 l.r. and the other .22 short. Like them immensely for the simplicity, accuracy with some ammo and the overall design.
But here's where the positives stop and precautionary measures should prevail. Most buyers of these rifles are unaware that the recievers are made of an alloy that when fed the hyper-velocity ammo such as Stingers, Vipers and others, the recievers can and do fail (blow up) because the bolts travel at momentums the recievers can't tolerate. I have personally seen 4 such recievers hanging on the walls of various gun shops where all that was salvageable were the barrel, stocks and possibly the mags. This is no lame issue here iether as some of the blown specimens seriously suggest some harm to the shooter did happen and if you shoot from the port side (left handed) you are at even MORE risk for injury to eyes and face. These rifle designs were never intended for hyper velocity ammo regardless of the adjustable buffer. That design feature was to accommodate standard velocity ammo AND lower velocity (read sub-sonic) ammo so that users in countries such as France could use the rifle for urban pest control WITH an add-on muzzle suppressor which is legal in France and even regarded as being civic minded so as to not disturb neighbours while say dispatching rodents that were a huge problem in France.
So to all Gunnutz thinking of a Gevarm acquisition, great! But do so knowing full well that that these rimfire rifles DO in fact have design limits and those limits should be heeded by not using hyper-velocity ammo. Should you try the ammo anyway and say it's fine with no problems is simply testing fate as no one can predict if and when a blown reciever will occur and I rather doubt that Gevarms design engineers even took into account the use of hyper ammo as it was not available back in the days when this design first appeared in Europe. I personally know of 2 gunsmiths who would not even consider owning a Gevarm for this reason and both had wallhangers brought in by customers who unknowingly tested fate and lost.