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Mauser bolt question

jaegermisterjaegermister Member Posts: 692 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2014 in Ask the Experts
On 98 at the rear most part of bolt , right side is a small groove machined into the firing pin assy. This groove is back further than the wing safety groove and nothing engages it during any time of cycle. What does it do?
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Safety does not engage the actual firing pin.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I might be thinking of another rifle action but somewhere in far away
    sections of my memory I was thinking a coin could be use to lock the firing pin back. I don't have a Model 98 to look at at my home. But maybe someone else will know for sure
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    With the rim of a cartridge, you can recock the firing pin without cycling the bolt.
    Paul Mauser was a genuis.

    Hangfires and dud cartridges were somewhat more common then than now. The US Springfield just used a knob.
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  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you accidently slip the sticker forward while the bolt is out of the rifle, you can use the notch to pull back the firing pin assembly and then rotate the assembly back into proper position so the bolt will go back into the rifle.
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  • jaegermisterjaegermister Member Posts: 692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thankyou. With the butt stock against my chest one hand on the cartridge body and the other finger on the cartridge base I was able to pull straight back and recock the bolt.
    Now re cocking a bolt outside the receiver using the notch and turning it at the same time I have not figured out. Up to now I have used the edge of a wooden table to recock and turn the bolt back in align.
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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jaegermister
    Thankyou. With the butt stock against my chest one hand on the cartridge body and the other finger on the cartridge base I was able to pull straight back and recock the bolt.
    Now re cocking a bolt outside the receiver using the notch and turning it at the same time I have not figured out. Up to now I have used the edge of a wooden table to recock and turn the bolt back in align.


    The little slot is, as mentioned by P3, for recocking with a cartridge rim. The safety does engage the firing pin, but up under the shroud. You have to take the firing pin out of the bolt body and put it in the shroud to see it.

    I used table tops and counter edges quite often to re-cock a Mauser bolt that I had set off. Until I got a tool specifically for that. It makes it much easier and doesn't damage table/countertop edges.

    p.s., I forgot to add, the "easist" way to disassmeble a bolt is with the safety in the top/center position. ...if you didn't already know that.
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