Tradex has a large selection of Schultz and Larson .22s again...
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I apoligize for my ignorance, my "new" Schultz & Larsen is sitting at the post office waiting for me to pick it up, and I'm just like a kid before Christmas, can't wait! But how do you tell if it's a 70 or 77, can someone educate me. It's my first, I just jumped on the band wagon.
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Absolutely NO chance that is Circassian walnut. Give me a break. lol
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It might be walnut, but there are so many variations of walnut and Beechwood, it is hard to tell without inspecting. Either way, nice wood.
Uhh Circassian or aka English/European Walnut is not rare or magical....also comes in many grades. Denmark being in Europe would probably be able to source it fairly easily....
Danish beech is some of the ugliest wood ever to be made into rifle stocks. If you ever had a chance to see the Italian M1's that were in Dane service that got restocked.... Blech....horrible stuff.
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Circassian walnut is an expensive and highly desireable variant of "English walnut" that is grown in the Black Sea region of Russia. Do you really think they used cuts of premium timber on a garden variety target rifle?
Be careful of your poorly thought out comments regarding Danish Beech being ugly. Firsly, it's not necessarily true. Secondly, it may offend others.
Be careful of your poorly thought out comments regarding Danish Beech being ugly. Firsly, it's not necessarily true. Secondly, it may offend others.
The very old trees and the 1/3000 marble cake patterns definitely are, but like I said there are many different grades, and it's cultivated all over Europe. Circassian is also known as English Walnut, Royal walnut, Italian walnut, European walnut, French walnut, Persian walnut, Austrian walnut, Turkish walnut and Russian walnut....
So yeah, in the 70's it would not be too hard to obtain some European Walnut.... In Europe. These were also made for Swede and Norway shooting clubs under contract so not exactly low end rifles.
Even today you can get Turkish shotguns with Turkish aka Circassian walnut stocks for under $150...it's not that expensive in the common grades.
The original manual for the M70 said they used walnut, and since the majority of walnut in Europe is Circassian it's not that unbelievable.
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Well I took my rifle out to the range. It looks like I have the M70, no adjustable trigger. The trigger on mine is great, the gun shoots good. It was a windy day, I'm sick with a cold, I shoot 1 inch groups at about 25 yards using a block of wood as a front rest. The issue is if using Winchester 525 bulk box ammo (1280 FPS) it balloons out the rim and I cannot eject the round, need to pry it out. If I shoot CCI Subsonic( 1050 FPS) it seems fine. The gun only actually ejected one round of the 50 or so I fired. The ballooned ends removes the edge off the rim, it is noticeable and rounds the back edge as well. I have the rounds here and will try to capture this in a photo. The end of the bolt looks bad on the gun, looks like it was beat with a hammer. I'm pretty sure I will return this gun. It is not something I would want to sell to another person at a later date.
EDIT: I cannot take a good enough photo to make it worth while.
EDIT: I cannot take a good enough photo to make it worth while.
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Wish I had my rifle nearby so I could take a look,but stuck at work., I just got off the ph with a bud who also bought one of these. He was saying that the chamber area has an opening for the extractor claw, that definitely has to be cleaned out thoroughly, otherwise extraction could be an issue. Maybe try this first b4 you throw in the towel.
I agree with this. I got out the dental picks and cleaned a whole bunch of crud from the extractor cut and around the chamber area of the barrel/receiver.
I have had absolutely no extraction problems with my rifle.
I got into my ammo stash this morning to see if I had any more of the Dynapoint GT ammo (black box) left.....................no such luck, but I still have about 11,000 rounds of regular Dynapoint ammo left. 4 different lots, so I'll be trying them out to see if one of them will shoot as well as the GT stuff. Found 9 bricks of American Eagle that I forgot I had, too.
Before anybody accuses me of "hoarding" I should let you know that I bought the Dynapoint 10 years ago at Walmart for $9.97 a brick. I guess I was hoarding back then......................or thinking ahead
Talked to my buddy again .His had the same issue Rusty! But after using solvent on an electric toothbrush, he had lead and old powder coming out. Afterwards it worked fine. Maybe try this first b4 you throw in the towel.
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no worries... I'm glad to hear S&L used European walnut, and nice cuts of Beechwood.
I was wondering what those shims were... but does headspace work the same way with rimfires? I thought they are spaced off the rim.
The distance between the bolt face and the breach face should be as close to zero as possible..
that little recess where the rimfire face fits in the bolt should be tight against the case when bolt is closed. That's the first measurement.
The next is the locking bolt handle to the bolt face distance, too long and the bolt won't close, too short and you can get ruptured cases or ballooning like Rusty has. The shims can be used to correct this.
that little recess where the rimfire face fits in the bolt should be tight against the case when bolt is closed. That's the first measurement.
The next is the locking bolt handle to the bolt face distance, too long and the bolt won't close, too short and you can get ruptured cases or ballooning like Rusty has. The shims can be used to correct this.
