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Hello All. I recently started my venture into collecting old milsurp rifles and started off with a Type 99 Arisaka and a 91/30 Mosin. Being new to gun ownership and inexperienced with some aspects of inspection I decided to take my Arisaka to a gunsmith (A&C in Gresham/Portland) to have them give the rifle a good lookover. The results of their... brief (that is a whole separate issue) inspection was that the rifle had closed on a no go gauge and a mention of 25+ thousandths excessive headspace (as far as I know they just popped a no go gauge in and charged me 70 bucks). As a result of all this I ordered a field gauge from Pacific Tool and Gauge and popped it in several ways (By virtue of learning experience) and the pictures show where the bolt stopped.
My question to those more experienced with older rifles is should I be worried or am I good to go?
Picture order is fully assembled bolt with the gauge not hooked into the extractor, second is fully assembled bolt with gauge hooked into the extractor, and the last is disassembled bolt (no extractor).
My question to those more experienced with older rifles is should I be worried or am I good to go?
Picture order is fully assembled bolt with the gauge not hooked into the extractor, second is fully assembled bolt with gauge hooked into the extractor, and the last is disassembled bolt (no extractor).