Hi there, I’m brand new to the forum and thought I’d try to pick a brain or two. I’ve searched for an answer to this question online but have found nothing. Sorry if it’s already been answered here and I missed it. Thanks in advance for talking a look!
I have a Chiappa clone of the Winchester 1886 .45/70. I tore the receiver down for the first time over the weekend for a good cleaning and got everything back together ok, but I have a question on the firing pin. This rifle seems to be a pretty solid clone of the original and all the internal parts seem to be accurate to the original. The firing pin is a single piece, and I'm seeing that some 1886 firing pins are multiple pieces. I don't know much more than that.
My question regards the amount of free play I have in the pin now. I don't believe there is any sort of coil rebound spring on this rifle, and it also does not appear the original design had a rebound spring. But there sure is a lot of play in the firing pin when the breach bolt is all the way home. I'm talking something like 1/4" of the rear portion of the firing pin can be sticking out of the back of the breach bolt, but it freely slides into the bolt so that there's nothing sticking out. That does not seem right to me. I’ve added a couple photos below, showing the hammer end of the breach bolt. In the first photo, I had elevated the muzzle a bit to show how the firing pin slides out of the back. The second shows the firing pin after I pushed it into the breach bolt with my finger.
I am very sure I got everything back together correctly but I don't recall the firing pin having that much play. Then again, I don't recall ever paying much attention to it either. It seems to be there should be something that puts tension on the firing pin so that it sticks out the back of the breach bolt body a little, then gets pushed forward by the hammer. I know that in other 1886 models by Uberti and Miroku there is a rebound spring that appears to be part of the main spring, but this model appears to be more true to the original design and just has the single, main leaf spring.
Does anyone here know much or anything about these rifles? I guessI could just take it out to the range to try and shoot it but it seems like a waste given the fact that it just looks wrong at this point.
I have a Chiappa clone of the Winchester 1886 .45/70. I tore the receiver down for the first time over the weekend for a good cleaning and got everything back together ok, but I have a question on the firing pin. This rifle seems to be a pretty solid clone of the original and all the internal parts seem to be accurate to the original. The firing pin is a single piece, and I'm seeing that some 1886 firing pins are multiple pieces. I don't know much more than that.
My question regards the amount of free play I have in the pin now. I don't believe there is any sort of coil rebound spring on this rifle, and it also does not appear the original design had a rebound spring. But there sure is a lot of play in the firing pin when the breach bolt is all the way home. I'm talking something like 1/4" of the rear portion of the firing pin can be sticking out of the back of the breach bolt, but it freely slides into the bolt so that there's nothing sticking out. That does not seem right to me. I’ve added a couple photos below, showing the hammer end of the breach bolt. In the first photo, I had elevated the muzzle a bit to show how the firing pin slides out of the back. The second shows the firing pin after I pushed it into the breach bolt with my finger.
I am very sure I got everything back together correctly but I don't recall the firing pin having that much play. Then again, I don't recall ever paying much attention to it either. It seems to be there should be something that puts tension on the firing pin so that it sticks out the back of the breach bolt body a little, then gets pushed forward by the hammer. I know that in other 1886 models by Uberti and Miroku there is a rebound spring that appears to be part of the main spring, but this model appears to be more true to the original design and just has the single, main leaf spring.
Does anyone here know much or anything about these rifles? I guessI could just take it out to the range to try and shoot it but it seems like a waste given the fact that it just looks wrong at this point.
