Remington model 16 22 auto rifle

[mooncoon]

Have any of you out there had any experience with a Remington model 16 22 auto rifle, originally chamber in the 22 Remington auto cartridge? I bought one recently, in which the chamber had been bushed to 22 long rifle but which also needed some repairs. Strange gun complicated by so far I have not been able to find a schematic drawing of the gun. A number of the parts seem to have peculiar features. For example there are several pins which go sideways through the receiver and function as pivots or stops. The holes are blind on one end and covered by the other side of the receiver on the other end (the gun comes apart in two halves side to side) What is strange is that the pins on the "outside" end seem to be grooved for C clips but I can't see any purpose for a C clip in that location. The pins sit proud of the right side of the receiver and a recess is milled into the left side of the receiver for the pins apparently to fit into. Why is totally beyond me ; once assembled, they don't move. There is a threaded hole in the sliding breach block for a #4 screw but I can't see any purpose for it being there. Nothing on the inside that it needs to press on
In Guntech is reading this, it is the gun you were looking at during the last Duncan gunshow

cheers mooncoon

 

[sunray]

Exploded drawing. stevespages.com/ipb-remington-16.html
Manual. stevespages.com/pdf/remington_16.pdf
Five seconds. snicker.
.22 Rem Auto is supposedly the same thing as .22 Winchester RF.

 

[mooncoon]

thanks for the exploded view of the components. I still would like to see a schematic of how the action works. I have advanced to the point where the gun will extract when I pull on the cocking knob. The action does not cycle back far enough to #### the hammer and to throw the fired shell out of the gun. One strange thing about the action is that there is a recoil spring which pushes the breach shut but it surrounds and pushes on the firing pin. That would probably allow the gun to slam fire if I am able to get the shells to feed out of the magazine. Because the original shell was larger in diameter than a current 22 long rifle shell, I probably will have to make a new magazine tube with a smaller inside bore.

the ejection problem was twofold; the extractor notch in the barrel was a tiny bit too shallow and the spring loaded plunger which tensions the extractor was a tiny bit short so that the extractor did not grip the shell tightly enough so I made a new slightly different cap for the spring

The 22 remington auto is a different shell from the 22 winchester auto and I understand that both were designed to prevent shells loaded with black powder to be shot in semi auto guns. I once owned and shot a 22 Winchester auto and with them I suspect that the long pointed nose of the Winchester auto was to assist the shell in feeding into the chamber. I have never knowingly seen a 22 Remington auto shell.

cheers mooncoon