need help with .22 rifle

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ahgar

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a friend of mine has a stevens model 66, this is a bolt action tube feed .22. the problem is we need to get the bolt out and for the life of me i can't figure it out. usually you just pull the trigger and pull the bolt back, not on this baby. It appears that the bolt and the feed mechanism are one piece. help!!!!
any help would be appreciated. thanks ahgar
 
thanks for the help, can't post pics and no lever on left side. i'd swear the dang thing was born instead of made. thanks ahgar
 
oh and believe it or not i already did contact the ebay seller, i'm still waiting for a reply. great minds think alike. thanks ahgar
 
The seller might not know. Twice I've bought old guns and couldn't figure out how to take it apart in the store, asked the owner and he didn't know either -- and I said, "Aw, I'll figure it out when I get it home," and bought it. I did figure them out, eventually.... :cool:

A suggestion: the bolt might not be the first part to take off. You might have to disassemble other parts first, and you might have to use a screwdriver or pin punch.
 
Took me 35 minutes to find it, but the info is here at the bottom of the page;

http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showpost.php?p=884&postcount=1

Got it. The pin that holds that U shaped cam thingy is also pinning the bolt to the feed assembly. Did not have a punch small enough for that.

I stripped the bolt (actually the bolt carrier) inside the gun. Just pushed out 1 pin and the bolt assembley slid out the rear of the bolt carrier. The bolt assembly holds the firing pin spring and the firing pin. The firing pin is round and swivels by a ball and socket joint and does not move at all lateraly. It has to swivel because it is not a straight shot through the carrier. The whole works moves inside the carrier. It is adjustable by which coil in the firing pin spring that you put the pin in. I filed some burrs off the front of the ball and socket joint so the bolt goes all the way forward in the carrier and set the spring on super strong (moved it one coil). Firing pin now sticks out about a strong 1/16th when fired.

Will test fire this afternoon
 
thanks very much it took me about an hour to find the same post. I did all that and still no go, however i finally got an answer from the ebay seller and my buddy will bring the gun back on sunday to give it a try. according to him you take off basically everything and then pull the bolt to the rear, you flip it over and look up inside and there's a slot which allows access to the bolt body. you then just insert a thin "spanner" wrench and unscrew counterclockwise. so i'll give it a try. thanks again for the input. later,ahgar
 
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