Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Hopefully you will not take offense but from the back and forth in this thread it is obvious you do not know a lot about these guns. Your best best is to take/send it to someone who does and let them analyze the problem and propose a fix. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrison Joe, SASS #60708 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 - the "centering" movement of the bolt as it approaches the chamber is quite normal. Usually with a round being fed, the round helps with that centering. With no round feeding, the nose of the extractor sliding into the extractor cut in the barrel face makes the bolt center up. It's both normal and necessary, since there is very little guidance of the nose of the bolt provided by the rather floppy support of either the FPE or the the fit of the rear of bolt into the frame. 2- the machining cuts showing in the top of the frame are also very normal. They would not interfere with a good firing pin strike. 3 - although a picture taken of rear of the frame can be deceiving, there appears to be a lot of wear on the frame, with a burr being raised at the bottom and wear at the top actually coming all the way out to the outside surface of the frame. Compare this to your 357 frame..... I'll second LEP's conclusion. This gun will need a serious repair to the frame or FP assembly that would be best handled by a gunsmith with good tooling and measurement skills. good luck, GJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Lead Pepper Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 2 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Hopefully you will not take offense but from the back and forth in this thread it is obvious you do not know a lot about these guns. Your best best is to take/send it to someone who does and let them analyze the problem and propose a fix. No offense taken. I do not know a lot about these guns, but I am trying to learn. The purpose of this thread was two fold for me. First I wanted to fix my rifle and get it back into action, but secondly I wanted to learn more about it. I have learned new things about the 73, so that part was successful. I will now hand it over to a gunsmith and see if I can get it back into competition form. Thank you all for the useful information. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Another good thing about these types of threads, is that folks that have a similar problem and too timid to ask, are also educated. Another thank you to Larsen and Garrison for providing detailed and comprehensive discussion of various causes and fixes. Although my rifles have not developed this problem in many years of service, it's good to know what to look for. While I run my carrier dry, I've always kept my FPE very lightly greased, and found that fouling from even black powder loads in my 45 Colt rifles doesn't affect the FPE. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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