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Fellas, I'll do my best to keep this accurate and easy to follow.
Followed the stripping 1895 pictorial last nite and afterwards cycled/fired a bunch of snap caps. Went to the range today, hail and all, and after 10 rounds had a FTF. The lever was all the way "open" and a cartridge was about 1/2" out of the mag tube. Complete vapor lock. I've got about 200 rounds w/out issues prior to the strip down(1st time).
Got home, stripped down, cleared the round, reassembled and managed to repeat the jamb after about 20 cycles. Stripped down again, cleared the round. However this time during reassembly I swapped locations of two very similar but obviously different screws. No FTF, shoot 20 rounds at the range withou issue.
Did I find the problem? The screws(# 72 & #73 it looks like on scematic)sure seemed to be doing the same job in both locations. Possible I have a FTF waiting to happen again? Matt
Followed the stripping 1895 pictorial last nite and afterwards cycled/fired a bunch of snap caps. Went to the range today, hail and all, and after 10 rounds had a FTF. The lever was all the way "open" and a cartridge was about 1/2" out of the mag tube. Complete vapor lock. I've got about 200 rounds w/out issues prior to the strip down(1st time).
Got home, stripped down, cleared the round, reassembled and managed to repeat the jamb after about 20 cycles. Stripped down again, cleared the round. However this time during reassembly I swapped locations of two very similar but obviously different screws. No FTF, shoot 20 rounds at the range withou issue.
Did I find the problem? The screws(# 72 & #73 it looks like on scematic)sure seemed to be doing the same job in both locations. Possible I have a FTF waiting to happen again? Matt