Good Afternoon All,

My brother owns a TNW 1919 in 30-06. We only took it out to the range once and it would not feed properly. It was stuffed back in the safe for another day to troubleshoot, and well, that day is today.

He is out of town so I'm looking at it and thought I would start with lubrication. However, I just found that I cannot field strip it. The charging handle will not pull fully to the rear. It stops about 1/4" short. I think that is why I can't lock the recoil spring in the bolt.

Any of the experts out there have any ideas what could be causing this or a work around? I don't want to mess with that recoil spring outside the established procedures since I have no experience with this weapon. My reading suggests pretty serious injury can result.
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