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RIF.
I know it's not regular sticky bolt, I said so in the op.
I also know that the camping surface are only in contact when the bolt is in the fired position, and said as much.
You should probably refrain from offering advice on the internet if you cant be bothered to read what you are responding to.
So you can take your high and mighty condescending attitude somewhere else.
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Quote History Quoted:
RIF.
I know it's not regular sticky bolt, I said so in the op.
I also know that the camping surface are only in contact when the bolt is in the fired position, and said as much.
You should probably refrain from offering advice on the internet if you cant be bothered to read what you are responding to.
So you can take your high and mighty condescending attitude somewhere else.
Well someone got salty quickly.
If your not going to try troubleshooting your rifle and just magically assume the internet will know the answer to your rifles issue then yes I am going to talk to you condescendingly. You don't give barely any helpful information to troubleshoot your rifle. Also your not fully reading the replies, people are giving your very valid suggestions that your ignoring.
Lets see, what do we know.
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Has to be something on the rifle end of it since swapping the bolt had no effect.
Good, you took the bolt mostly out of the equation. That also means all your information about what you did to the bolt is pretty much irreverent because you ruled out the bolt, so no need to keep restating it.
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Bolt is Smith when cocked, hard to open when in fired position.
Well this is pretty normal, assuming that is suppose to be smooth not smith, it is after all a cock on open. So lets just assume it just cocks a bit harder then it should. This tells us it is likely not interference from the interrupter/ejector as these mostly interact with the bolt the same regardless of if it is cocked.
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This is with no round in the rifle, so it is not Cosmo in the chamber, ECT.
Ok, so we know it dose it with or with out a cartridge chambered. So you ruled out the chamber defect and head space.
But your only partially right on the Cosmoline. You are forgetting about the locking lugs, which is what dIIshoots, and lew were getting at.
Clean the lug groves, this is a pretty common problem area for mosins.
bradleyswine has a good point, it might be a collision on the seer, but rather then swapping it I would first try to action it with the trigger depressed. Unloaded of course.
If those don't help it is time to start pulling parts. Remove the mag well, try it. Remove the stock, try it. Remove the trigger/seer, try it. Remove the interrupter/ejector assembly, try it. If it still has issues at that point your in trouble. At that point your down to just the barrel, receiver and bolt, and you ruled one of those out. So go, troubleshoot, locate the problem part/s then comeback and maybe then the internet can actually help you fix it.
Better yet is to take it to someone with mosin knowledge. They could check a lot more in just a few minutes just by physically handling the rifle.