stuck ejector browning A bolt

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I have a bolt here that was dropped off and asked if I could free up the ejector, apparently the guy fired a mystery handload through it and locked up the bolt pretty good and had to tap the bolt open with a rubber hammer or something.

Anyway I have freed up quite a few ejectors in the past on different action but this one just wont come out.
I removed the cross pin and it had a dent in it , the ejector goes in and out but only up to about 1/16" from the bolt face .

any thoughts on how I might get that little bugger out of there ,I thought about removing the bolt head and wonder if the hole behind the plunger might not go through the other side but probably not.
My guess is that the ejector is bent .
 
Hold the bolt upright in a vice... a little Hoppes #9 on the ejector, a very light ball peen hammer and a punch smaller in diameter than the ejector... lightly tap several times letting the ejector bounce up... it may do it...
 
guntech said:
Hold the bolt upright in a vice... a little Hoppes #9 on the ejector, a very light ball peen hammer and a punch smaller in diameter than the ejector... lightly tap several times letting the ejector bounce up... it may do it...
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This usually the way I go about it but no go it bounces up and down but no teddy bear, I think the plunger is bent a bit .
 
coyote said:
This usually the way I go about it but no go it bounces up and down but no teddy bear, I think the plunger is bent a bit .
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Slam the bolt head straight down on a steel block several times, possibly the inertia will work it out...
 
I tried that to with no success I puled the bolt head off this morning in hopes that the hole might exit on the other side but it didn't so I reassembled it and will tell him to get a new bolt head or bring it back after Moose season .
It still extracts fine just need to pick it out with your fingers or tilt the gun.

I wacked it pretty good on a mild steel block and it wouldn't budge if I knew I could drill it out I would give it a go but I dont want to make the gun inoperable this time of year.
 
I have fixed a lot of ejectors ,mostly on .22's that have had the bolt "racked" hard with no bullet. the slot in the end of the bolt that the ejector pivots in gets peened in and it pins the ejector in place not allowing it swing out and spit the brass. The easy method is a small flat file ,push the ejector in a bit farther and clean the slot up. 9/10 times this is the problem as the steel of the bolt gets slightly annealed every time the rifle is fired and with the constant repetition and build up in the ejector slot of the chamber its amazing it dosnt happen more often.
 
broadhead67 said:
I have fixed a lot of ejectors ,mostly on .22's that have had the bolt "racked" hard with no bullet. the slot in the end of the bolt that the ejector pivots in gets peened in and it pins the ejector in place not allowing it swing out and spit the brass. The easy method is a small flat file ,push the ejector in a bit farther and clean the slot up. 9/10 times this is the problem as the steel of the bolt gets slightly annealed every time the rifle is fired and with the constant repetition and build up in the ejector slot of the chamber its amazing it dosnt happen more often.
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You are talking about an extractor I am talking about an ejector the plunger with a spring behind it to eject the brass the extractor works fine it is the ejector that is stuck
 
Drill it out with a drill a few thousandths smaller than the ejector hole, be fussy about your set up on the drill press and make sure you are not out of alignment. Chances are there wont be a need to go as deep as the spring as the ejector will want to come out of the hole after you get in a short way. WGP should be able to set you up with a new ejector. D.H.
 
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