Post by littleguns on Feb 2, 2021 14:04:21 GMT -5
I need to remove/replace a sliding barrel selector on an old-model Savage 24. My question: Am I correct that to do this job, I have no choice but to remove the main spring and other parts to clear a path for the selector?
A few thoughts:
(1) No, I don't want to install a hammer selector; I have several I could install but just don't like them in an older gun.
(2) No, I won't take the gun to a smith, because the only guy in town never gets the job finished. (I had one .22 rifle there for eight years and it only needed a bolt; I have had a rabbit-ear double there for four years waiting for new firing pins he says he has made but hasn't installed; my gunshow buddy, now deceased for three years, had a Ruger sixgun there for 21 years at the time of his death. It has become a sort of macabre, running-joke waiting game
.)
(3) Yes, I have on hand an abundant supply of selector parts I will need so availability isn't an issue.
(4) Yes, I have read and studied the detailed disassembly/assembly instructions posted some time ago by neilrr on this site but am perhaps too dense to follow his information on the selector installation. Thank you, neillrr, for the overall amazingly detailed information you have provided
.
So any way ... do I have to take out the mainspring and associated pieces to proceed? Any and all advice is appreciated.
(Neillrr offers a method for minor modifications to make mainspring work a one-person job, so I can do that if necessary. Again, thanks for that info.; it's just too cold in Minnesota right now to do the modifications in my unheated shed.)
A few thoughts:
(1) No, I don't want to install a hammer selector; I have several I could install but just don't like them in an older gun.
(2) No, I won't take the gun to a smith, because the only guy in town never gets the job finished. (I had one .22 rifle there for eight years and it only needed a bolt; I have had a rabbit-ear double there for four years waiting for new firing pins he says he has made but hasn't installed; my gunshow buddy, now deceased for three years, had a Ruger sixgun there for 21 years at the time of his death. It has become a sort of macabre, running-joke waiting game
.)(3) Yes, I have on hand an abundant supply of selector parts I will need so availability isn't an issue.
(4) Yes, I have read and studied the detailed disassembly/assembly instructions posted some time ago by neilrr on this site but am perhaps too dense to follow his information on the selector installation. Thank you, neillrr, for the overall amazingly detailed information you have provided
.So any way ... do I have to take out the mainspring and associated pieces to proceed? Any and all advice is appreciated.
(Neillrr offers a method for minor modifications to make mainspring work a one-person job, so I can do that if necessary. Again, thanks for that info.; it's just too cold in Minnesota right now to do the modifications in my unheated shed.)