I really like the way you chose to have them mounted; probably saved a few bucks vs the hair on the head taxiderm mount.
Hope you have the wall space to display; my wife would have said MAN CAVE PLEASE!
I should have taken pics of the surfaces of the exposed bolt minus handle and the
underside of the bolt. The area covered by the solder was closer to 75% than the ideal
100%. That, plus age of gun according to the serial # on receiver, and perhaps, high
shot count is my best guess as to the...
The trigger group was removed . 1 guy using right angle needle nose pliers to
compress the lug on the bottom of the bolt shroud and 1 guy using a 1/4" screwdriver
and tapping gingerly in a counter-clockwise direction on the underside of the bolt
until the bolt was released from its locked...
The rec. serial# (A626xxxx) corresponds to a mid to late 70's DOB. The bolt is the standard unfluted
issue. Being close to 5 decades old and who knows how many hundreds or even thousands of
rounds down the pipe....my first thought was metal/solder fatigue, that I just happened to facilitate...
Rem 700 BDL in 257 AI. ..... In the process of adjusting the trigger and testing if my adjustments
would unexpectedly set off the trigger, I set the safe on and off for testing purposes. On one
of the times, with the safety on, I yanked too aggressively on the bolt handle, and it came
flying...
1st post but have been a follower [lurker congers up negative images] of the this forum for some time, mainly due to the helpful info everyone
so willingly dispenses, the collegiality amongst the users and the scarcity of pi$$ing contests so often displayed on other sites.
Just came into...