I had the pleasure of inheriting a remy fieldmaster model 121 from my Grandfather earlier this year. The barrel stamp indicates April 1953 date of MFG. Visibly it's in great shape, but it has a problem that apparently manifests itself randomly, and not according to any discernable pattern thus far.
The problem, while shooting regular velocity winchester 22LR, occurred 9 times out of 150 shots over 3 hours at the range in nice California whether. This is how I can best describe it:
1. The round fires and the report sounds a little flat, or off, compared to how it sounds when it works fine.
2. Smoke seeps slowly out of the receiver, like smoke under a door from that movie backdraft.
3. The case is stuck and will not extract. The forward grip (slide action handle) will not budge.
Then I do this:
4. Unscrew the big knob and remove the lower part of the receiver and buttstock.
5. Caulk the hammer.
6. reassemble the 'lower' to the 'upper'.
7. pull the trigger on the still stuck case.
8. Now the slide works and the case extracts and ejects.
9. I did not look at all of the cases, hindsite is 20/20, only 2, and they didn't have any 'bulbous rear ends' so to speak. They looked like the rest of the cases.
The majority of the time, when it shoots fine, it groups OK, but my POI is 6-7inches high and right of my POA at 50yrds, from a bench, with the stock rear site adjusted as low as it can go. No clue why, the crown looks OK and the bore was actually shiny when I got it.
Also, inside the action, when the rounds are pushed out of the magazine tube and along that steel 'canoe' before insertion into the chamber, the metal 'canoe' looks like a rainbow. I.E. there is excessive heat in that location for some reason that has been building up over time. It was there when I received the gun, and I just thought that it was 'really old'.
I'm not sure if these 3 issues are realted and/or conspiring against me, or if they're just standalone evil doers.
If any of you folks have experience with this model and can provide some failure mode analysis (as it where) I would greatly appreciate it. If I can provide any more information I'd be happy to as well. Thanks for your time.
The problem, while shooting regular velocity winchester 22LR, occurred 9 times out of 150 shots over 3 hours at the range in nice California whether. This is how I can best describe it:
1. The round fires and the report sounds a little flat, or off, compared to how it sounds when it works fine.
2. Smoke seeps slowly out of the receiver, like smoke under a door from that movie backdraft.
3. The case is stuck and will not extract. The forward grip (slide action handle) will not budge.
Then I do this:
4. Unscrew the big knob and remove the lower part of the receiver and buttstock.
5. Caulk the hammer.
6. reassemble the 'lower' to the 'upper'.
7. pull the trigger on the still stuck case.
8. Now the slide works and the case extracts and ejects.
9. I did not look at all of the cases, hindsite is 20/20, only 2, and they didn't have any 'bulbous rear ends' so to speak. They looked like the rest of the cases.
The majority of the time, when it shoots fine, it groups OK, but my POI is 6-7inches high and right of my POA at 50yrds, from a bench, with the stock rear site adjusted as low as it can go. No clue why, the crown looks OK and the bore was actually shiny when I got it.
Also, inside the action, when the rounds are pushed out of the magazine tube and along that steel 'canoe' before insertion into the chamber, the metal 'canoe' looks like a rainbow. I.E. there is excessive heat in that location for some reason that has been building up over time. It was there when I received the gun, and I just thought that it was 'really old'.
I'm not sure if these 3 issues are realted and/or conspiring against me, or if they're just standalone evil doers.
If any of you folks have experience with this model and can provide some failure mode analysis (as it where) I would greatly appreciate it. If I can provide any more information I'd be happy to as well. Thanks for your time.
