- May 15, 2007
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I had recently acquired a Ruger Mini 14 as some of you know... and have no issues taking it apart... except for dissembling the bolt itself. Ruger recommends that you do not disassemble the bolt unless you're a qualified gunsmith... well since there are no qualified gunsmiths near me in central Maryland.. I decide to do it myself.
I've been wanting to dissemble that bolt only because I wanted to give it a thorough cleaning... seeing how the rest of the gun was filthy when I bought it... even brand new
There is a helpful Youtube video showing how to do this... simple enough you would think:
1. It is a pure exercise in futility to get a screwdriver in; to depress that detent enough to slide the extractor out. But I finally got it done.
2. It is ANOTHER pure exercise in futility to get that detent to seat back into the extractor notch when reassembling it. It just would not seat; seemed to be hung up at the very point where it would just pop in. I ended up filing a very small amount on the sides of the extractor notch and in finally was able to "pop in".
I am sure that as the spring wears, it will be a little easier in the future to disassemble this Mini 14 bolt if needed. At least I got it cleaned, it was as I expected.. very filthy in the firing pin channel.
I slept better last night... knowing that I finally was able to completely clean my newest firearm acquisition.
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I've been wanting to dissemble that bolt only because I wanted to give it a thorough cleaning... seeing how the rest of the gun was filthy when I bought it... even brand new
There is a helpful Youtube video showing how to do this... simple enough you would think:
1. It is a pure exercise in futility to get a screwdriver in; to depress that detent enough to slide the extractor out. But I finally got it done.
2. It is ANOTHER pure exercise in futility to get that detent to seat back into the extractor notch when reassembling it. It just would not seat; seemed to be hung up at the very point where it would just pop in. I ended up filing a very small amount on the sides of the extractor notch and in finally was able to "pop in".
I am sure that as the spring wears, it will be a little easier in the future to disassemble this Mini 14 bolt if needed. At least I got it cleaned, it was as I expected.. very filthy in the firing pin channel.
I slept better last night... knowing that I finally was able to completely clean my newest firearm acquisition.
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