OH MAN!!Those things are a friggin' bit#@. I personally found that using a small thin putty knife, like a 1 inch or so works well. The blade is thin enough to get between the bolt and receiver to help hold the springs back and somewhat straight while you try to push/twist/jiggle the rods into place.
WTF am I doing wrong???(597)
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Take out your rails and check them by rolling them on a flat surface like a table. If they go straight one direction, they're great. If they wobble around all messy, then they're pooched. You may have damaged them. Nothing should be jammed. The 597 rail system is kinda neat I think, but the bolt must be locked into the rails or you will need to 'jam' it, and if you decide to do that, it still won't work and you may be out a few bucks.
Waitaminute, are you saying you love Rem Golden's but hate the Rem boltie's?
I respected - and expected - more from you!
Just kidding....
Sorry to hijack here, but someone mentioned that "nobody ever cleans .22s anyway"...
I have heard this logic several times in my shooting career, and I just don't get it. Of all my firearms, my semi-auto .22s have got to be the filthiest (with unburned powder sprinkled liberaly throughout, after a couple of hundred rounds, and possibly wax as well), and with the relatively weak charges, reliability of function becomes a real problem after five hundred rounds on average. So, if I clean my bolt action centrefires after 20 rounds, why would I not clean my semi .22 after 200?
Anybody got a reasonable answer, other than urban legend? I clean my .22s, like all my guns, after every range trip. (Except for the reliability test with my PE90, where I put 1000 through it, but could hardly sleep, worrying about the carbon....)!
Neal
I have heard this logic several times in my shooting career, and I just don't get it. Of all my firearms, my semi-auto .22s have got to be the filthiest (with unburned powder sprinkled liberaly throughout, after a couple of hundred rounds, and possibly wax as well), and with the relatively weak charges, reliability of function becomes a real problem after five hundred rounds on average. So, if I clean my bolt action centrefires after 20 rounds, why would I not clean my semi .22 after 200?
Anybody got a reasonable answer, other than urban legend? I clean my .22s, like all my guns, after every range trip. (Except for the reliability test with my PE90, where I put 1000 through it, but could hardly sleep, worrying about the carbon....)!
Neal
