Purchased a 42 Springfield m1 with correct barrel (still has some life left) from a local transaction. It was a recent CMPicon purchase (one of those guys that buys a bunch then sells them for a little more, anyway I'm in Californiastan and couldn't get my paper work together before our cutoff date where they won't ship to front door).
I stripped the rifle down, cleaned off the oil then greased appropriate areas. The rifle functioned on first clip, except for loading. When I insert clip bolt won't engage, I usually have to manually drive it home or it won't move forward at all, I have to pull back on oprod handle while pressing clip down then manually push forward. I'm using 3 different GI clips; all the same. I'm using hxp and lake city m2 ammo.
Now for the short stroking. (I know, I've tried searching before bringing it up here). As I said first clip was fine second clip it short stroked a couple. 3rd and 4th it was a bolt action.
I brought it home, did a bunch of research both here and in troubleshooting section of owners manual. It passes all the tilt tests fine. Gas cylinder seemed a bit sloppy so I peened upper spline and tightened it up. Cleaned piston and inside of gas cylinder. I measured both piston and gas cylinder with my calipers (wouldn't trust that readings were correct as they aren't the greatest but seemed to be in spec and piston doesn't appear to have flat spots), cleaned the gas port hole in barrel and tightened down gas plug (no cracks that I could see on plug) with 1/4 ratchet and greased it back up and took it out again today.
Still having the same loading issues but first clip had one short stroke, second ran smooth, third was about half short strokes and fourth was bad. 2 short strokes then third was a dry fire did not eject the live round when I pulled back bolt and was ready to send another to chamber so pulled op back and ejected the clip and called it a day.
Is this definitely a gas issue? In going to order s spring from Orion just because it wouldn't hurt, and in thinking of ordering some of those gas cyl gauges from garand gear to test that as I trust my calipers more with outer dimensions rather than inner.
Any input from the pros here on both the cycling and loading would be greatly appreciated. I purchase this a month ago and cmp tag was very recent, was hoping for decent functioning rifle but... Guess the quickest way to get familiar with a certain model is to have trouble and try to fix it.
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