A different sort of P-17 ejection problem

[Salt Flat]

T-train, Wow, I've never seen that done before! Bubba went crazy with a hacksaw (or mill) on that. It lookks like his intentiion was to replace the rest by bending the end of the spring. There has got to be a way to put a little more outward pressure on that spring. I'd really check the rest of the rifle very carefully to see what other "customizing" has been done to possibly affect the safety of this rifle.Salt Flat

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[t-train]

T-train, Wow, I've never seen that done before! Bubba went crazy with a hacksaw (or mill) on that. It lookks like his intentiion was to replace the rest by bending the end of the spring. There has got to be a way to put a little more outward pressure on that spring. I'd really check the rest of the rifle very carefully to see what other "customizing" has been done to possibly affect the safety of this rifle.Salt Flat

That makes perfect sense. I was looking at it again yesterday and noticed that the spring had actually snapped at one point and was brazed back together! Good grief. I'll definitely look over this rifle again, although from the disassembly it didn't look too bad, but it won't hurt. I hope this is the only problem; maybe I'll have to solder something in to replace the stop. It does shoot well otherwise, and was hoping (once the ejector issue is fixed) to reblue the externals and get a new stock from boyds for a sweet enfield hunting rifle. The barrel is a handy length, and it has excellent sporterized open peep sights.