M95M bolt problems

[Aragorn243]

I had a snow day today and decided to work on finishing up my M95M project which I thought simply involved color matching the hand guard. After completing that, I was playing around with it a bit to see how the action worked etc and I noticed it drops out of battery very easily.

When I slam the bolt forward and pull the trigger, it "fires". Not the problem. If I slam the bolt forward and don't pull the trigger and pull back slightly and I mean no real pressure, it will not fire. Push forward, it fires. Obviously this isn't a good condition for a combat rifle to work with and I pulled down my only other easily accessible M95 which is my demilled one. It's bolt is tight, cannot be bumped back. Thought about swapping some parts as maybe the spring is bad. The bolts themselves and the bolt bodies are not interchangable with these so that is out. When I took it apart, I discovered about an inch long crack in the bolt head where the firing pin nut screws in. The crack follows the groove which rotates the bolt.

Now this obviously SEEMS like a problem. But the crack is at the opposite end of the bolt head and is not anywhere near the locking lugs. I would like to solve this problem and don't really have an issue getting another bolt head which is available, but if the problem is something else, I don't want to sink $50 into something that isn't exactly fixable. I've never fired this and now that I know there is a crack I'm not likely too but it is one I'd like to fire. Is it possible that this crack is what is allowing the bolt to pull slightly out of battery?

There is a crack which starts at the firing pin nut and goes to about a quarter inch beyond where the other green arrow is. Then there is a second crack starting at the first and going out at a right angle shown by the third green arrow.

I can get a bolt head, a bolt body, a firing pin nut if recommended or just the bolt head as it seems to be what is broken. Complete matching bolts are not available.

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