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Posted: 5/30/2004 7:39:48 PM EDT
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About 14 years ago I saw a FN-49 at the sporting goods store and since I needed another .30-06 anyway, I got it. Well, today I finally got around to firing it  The first 5 shots at 50 yards were perfect. It must have been sighted in for me already. Then I got a click, then two more. There were craters on the primer, but they looked a little shallower then the others. From then on almost half my shots were the same. Sometimes repeated hits would get them to fire, sometimes not. I tried some of pre-hit primer rounds in a M1Garand and they fired fine. The ammo was 1990 Danish surplus. I figure it must need new hammer springs. Does this sound right? Anything else I should be replacing? I think I like this rifle better than the Garand. I outshot the M1 at 50 and 100 yards today and it just felt better shooting it. |
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You should ask over here: p077.ezboard.com/fparallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsforumsfrm52 These guys know a lot about the FN49 rifles. Could be a broken firing pin. I've heard it's not uncommon. Can also lead to slam fires! |
 Please not again. Why is it that rifles I bought years ago are now worth too much to shoot? There are way too many collectors out there driving prices up. I think I paid something like $349 for that rifle. I have another rifle that I paid $549 for that is over $2000 now. It's nuts. I don't want to sell them, but now I have to buy something else to actually shoot. I don't want to put it away while its unreliable so I will look into some replacement springs. I might then shoot it in a classic battlerifle practical rifle match coming up (if I get it fixed in time), then I will put it away.  And to think, one of the reasons I bought it was I inherited a bunch of WWII era corrosive ammo that I might shoot up someday. |
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They are really great rifles. I have one in a couple in 8mm, on in .30-06, one in 7mm Mauser. they are great rifles, especially in .30-06 if made or rebuilt after 1953. Everyone else has figured this out as well, and like the $400 G-43 rifles I was buying years ago, the price has gone sky high. |
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I put in the new hammer springs today. I notice that when I pull back hammer there is point halfway back where the resistance jumps lower (I'm having a hard time describing it). I think it is the inside and outside springs (one or the other) hanging up on the other initially, then releasing as the tension of the hammer being brought back increases. I notice it when I pull the bolt back too. I'm not sure if this is the way it is suppossed to be and didn't notice one way or the other before. There does not appear to be any special place for the internal spring to be. It just floated around inside the outside spring before I installed it. Am I good to go or did I mess up? |
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