Remington 597 - fails to fire

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Remington 597 - fails to fire

#1 Post by meles meles »

oomans,

our fun gun, a Remington 597 with bull barrel and laminated stock,
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has started sulking. It used to feed and fire CCI Minimangs with no problems, but occasionally failed to fire some other brands. However, the problem has become far worse over the last few days. It will chamber a round easily enough but now hardly ever fires it. We can't see anything obviously wrong with the action or firing pin, but the strikes on the cases look exceeding light. What's the fix?
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Normal advice for things like this is a full strip and clean, after you've done that do the same to the gun :)
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#3 Post by meles meles »

it's in pieces right now, with nothing visibly amiss...
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#4 Post by dromia »

A good clean especially around the firing pin and spring.

Reassemble and test fire, a good clean usually sorts out the majority of 22 Semi Auto problems so it is the first thing to do before looking for not obvious broken bits.
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#5 Post by meles meles »

It was clean: we know .22s are generally left uncleaned for long periods of time but we couldn't bring ourselves not to clean it.

We've cleaned and lightly oiled everything, now it'll be put back together and tried out again next weekend
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#6 Post by Landy Dave »

I had a similar issue on a Ruger where a piece of grit was fouling the firing pin and so just slowing it enough to cause light strikes.
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