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Winchester 100 help?

legn4
I pick up a model 100 (1961)rifle the other day. I knew it had a issue.Condtion is blueing fair,checkering smooth,wood not bet up.Iam thinking carried alot & maybe shot alot. Any way working the bolt by hand it cycles fine.With ammo(factory)1st round works OK, 2nd rd fired the case is pulled back maybe 1/16-stays in chamber. The next coming up of course hangs. I removed the clip still hangs in chamber. Could this be a weak extractor spring not makeing the extractor hold on to the fired case tight enough????
Thanks/ Eddie
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  • MIKE WISKEY
    could be a weak ext. spring, chipped extractor, or pitted/dirty/rusty chamber. a good cleaning is in order, and check to see if the fireing pin has been changed to a new 'flat' one.
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  • JimmyJack
    Imperative on that rifle to have the gas chamber sparkling clean.
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  • MFI
    They had a recall on the firing pin on that model. You can still call Winchester /Browning and give them your serial number to see if the pin has been fixed..
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  • wpage
    Thats a good old gun but as others have quite rightly said. There was a recall on the firing pins that winchester will honor for free.
    www.winchester.com

    Give the gun a good cleaning and inspect the spring. The jam you mention generally means one or the other.
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  • SNIPER1048
    I picked up one of these for $ 200.00 that had been sitting in a closet for 20 years. Took it apart for good cleaning and there was no firing pin! Asked around and found a gunsmith in Maine that sold me the parts for $ 35.00. I replaced every thing and took it to deer rifle sight in days. Worked like a new rifle! You can find on E-bay a gun smith manual on how to take a WIN 100 apart and maintain it. Just go to catagoreies type in WIN 100 and hit search. Very tricky to disasemble and reasemble. Just my .02 worth. Brownell's sells a new gas piston assy. for the WIN 100. About $ 70.00. Good idea to replace this if yours has been shot a lot.
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  • Wolf.
    You can obtain a downloadable, soft copy of the original Winchester factory manual for the Win 100 (and other guns), in Adobe .pdf format from Steve's Pages. Here is the URL:
    http://stevespages.com/page7b.htm
    The file is approx 275 megabytes.

    It is not a gunsmith's manual on the weapon, but does give basic care, takedown and reassembly information. So, it is a no-charge option for you, if you are interested.
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