Hey Guys, I recently acquired a beautiful Model 35-1 22 rimfire.
Unfortunately, it seriously suffers from light strikes that no amount of cleaning will solve. I believe that the firing does not protrude forward quite enough, certainly not as far as the one on my Model 17.
Like the 17s and 34s, it has the old style frame mounted firing pin with a bushing. I was thinking that if I removed the bushing and shaved a few thou off the back I would gain the forward travel that I need. Today I received a cup tipped punch from Brownells and attempted to drive out the bushing retaining pin. It would not budge! In fact the tip of the punch started to mushroom.
Am I missing something here? Is there a trick to removing this pin? Thanks in advance for any help.