Recent content by TLE

A lot of competition shooters and said to be gunsmiths remove the part as part of a trigger job. It has never bothered me so I leave it in plus if it's an IDPA competition not having it will get you disqualified at the equipment check station at the larger matches.

I have a couple of Volquartsen extractors coming in the mail just to have but I really have had no problems with the stock one in my old rifle and it has a lot of miles on it.

I ordered the spring kit this morning and had the same thought as to what I would do with the hammer spring. I also got my KNS trigger pins that are made for the 15-22 in the mail today and installed them in the problem gun.

I talked to S&W today and they are going to send a new firing pin and hammer spring. We will see what that does for me. After finding out about the design change of the bolt and firing pins I'm working on sourcing a few replacement Ti pins for my old bolt.

Thanks for the information about the bolt. My old gun is fine so I don't need a bolt but after doing some more comparison I see that an old style pin won't work in the new bolts and vice versa. I really hope I never break my old pin because it gets direct contact with the cartridge and it fires...

I tried to have an open mind about the flat triggers even though I didn't like them in auto pistols. I tried a flat trigger in another rifle and just couldn't make myself like it. It may be due to my index fingers being short with a lot of curve to them and the flat trigger just didn't work for...

Which Geissele trigger are you running with the new type firing pin? I just picked up an S3G on the Memorial day sale and put it in my older rifle that I use for Steel Challenge. While her gun wasn't running she shot my rifle and said "I sure like that trigger" so I know I'll be buying another...

Here is a picture of the new and old bolts, notice the resting position of the firing pin in the old bolt on the right.

I forgot to mention that my early 15-22 does not require inertia to fire. When the back of the firing pin is flush with the back of the bolt the pin is as far forward as it can go. If it went any further you could not dry fire the rifle. The new gun must overcome the spring to make it to the...

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I forget how old my 15-22 is. I bought it while shooting an indoor match at the S&W HQ when they gave us a huge discount on them. It's somewhere around 10 years old. You would have thought that for drop test and protection from slam fires that they would have stayed with the Ti pin. My old gun...

A Ti firing pin for sure but it must be the same configuration as the old original Ti pins. I took my wife out to shoot her new 15-22 that I got her because she liked mine so well. The new gun was suffering from lite strikes about 1/3 of the time. I put my bolt in her gun and it ran great. I...

The tip is in good shape. If you measure the pin from the slot where the cross pin goes through to the tip they almost measure the same, it's the back end that is driven by the hammer that is longer. I'll talk to S&W Monday and depending on the answers I'll get an old style pin from them or...

OK, I stripped down both of my bolts for the comparison. The old bolt that runs anything I put in the rifle has a Ti firing pin that is .060 longer than the new gun that has a steel firing pin. S&W has a history of messing up the firing pins on the revolvers so I guess the same thinking has made...

I just got back from taking my wife to shoot her new 15-22 Muddy Girl rifle. I experienced the same thing with it, at least 1/3 of the rounds didn't fire. I took the bolt out of my 15-22 and it runs fine. Put the bolt back in and lite strikes return. Looking at the 2 bolts the firing pin in the...