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Argentine mauser bolt

MarkusMarkus Member Posts: 114 ✭✭
edited October 2007 in Ask the Experts
Hey guys! I have a question for 'ya. I'm swapping bolts on my 1891 Argentine mauser and I have all the parts ready to go except I don't know how to take the extractor out of the old bolt. Every dissasembly page I've come across says it's best NOT to remove the extractor when dissasembling your bolt, but, I NEED the old extractor to finish my new bolt. Any hints? [:I]

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  • spec.4spec.4 Member Posts: 897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I use an needle nose pliers and place it near the lugs and lift outwards, and then forward. Using the pliers again I slip it into the rings it expense the ring to get it off the bolt. Replacing it is easy as well. Slip ring over the new bolt and using the pliers, close the ring. Then using two small screw drivers push the tabs of the rings together and slip in the extractor over it, as you push it on you need to hold the extractor with your thumb and take an needle nose plier and lift outward then push it on. Make sure the extractor goes into the grove near the head.

    spec.4
  • mongrel1776mongrel1776 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This is based directly on the pictures and info in Jerry Kuhnhausen's "Mauser Bolt Actions":

    There is a small retaining stud on the underside of the extractor, that fits into a corresponding hole in the extractor slot, roughly 1/4" back from the bolt face. To remove the extractor, simply take a small screwdriver that has had the tip slightly rounded (most of us have at least one of those that is worn from use, laying around the shop somewhere), insert the tip GENTLY under the extractor hook, and lift just enough to raise the retaining stud out of its hole, GENTLY drawing the extractor forward as you do so. The whole extractor is spring steel and should flex upward with no problem. The extractor is dovetailed at its rear, and once that dovetailed portion clears the dovetailed area of the extractor slot in the bolt body the part should just pretty much drop off. Slide it into the extractor slot of your new bolt -- the retaining stud is bevelled at the rear and ought to slide right up and over the edge of the bolt face, and snap into the retaining hole.

    I capped the word GENTLY because flexing it too far up, or using too much force to draw it forward, will break either the body or hook of the extractor. If it doesn't lift and draw out easily, soak it in penetrating oil for a day or so and try again.
  • mongrel1776mongrel1776 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spec.4
    I use an needle nose pliers and place it near the lugs and lift outwards, and then forward. Using the pliers again I slip it into the rings it expense the ring to get it off the bolt. Replacing it is easy as well. Slip ring over the new bolt and using the pliers, close the ring. Then using two small screw drivers push the tabs of the rings together and slip in the extractor over it, as you push it on you need to hold the extractor with your thumb and take an needle nose plier and lift outward then push it on. Make sure the extractor goes into the grove near the head.

    spec.4

    This is correct for the '93-'98 Mausers, but the '91 has an entirely different extractor setup. It proved to be a little flimsy for field use and was completely redesigned on the later-model Mausers. [;)]
  • spec.4spec.4 Member Posts: 897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did not know that, because I don't have the Argentine 91 Mauser yet. Still looking for an good one.

    spec.4
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