I inherited my uncle's JCHiggins model 10116 (Savage-Stevens 7) semi-auto 22 rifle. I'm kinda attached to it cuz it's the first gun I ever fired when my cousin & I were kids. Like to return it to shooting condition. Almost got it there.
It has trouble feeding the rounds from the magazine up to be chambered. The 22 shorts, especially, tilt upward & get 2 of them side-by-side. The longs & long rifles will often try to feed crooked. Sometimes it won't even cock until I push the next round forward with a screwdriver to clear the kicker.
I've put in new extractors & with some filing they "usually" work fine. About every 5th or 6th round has to be extracted with a pocket knife.
I've spent hours cleaning, scrubbing, polishing, oiling, wiping off the oil I just put on; only to have someone say "It's probly just dirty." I've sorted out the bullets (diameters) with micrometers & tried using only the small ones.
The local professional gunsmith has told me that 22 cal ammo has changed in the last decade or so and will probably never work right in such an old gun.
Dang! I've already bought scope mounts for it to see if it's as accurate at 300 yds as my cousin used to brag about.
Does anyone have any thoughts - what to look for? Is the smith right about changed ammo? Has anyone ever seen this before? What do I do? Should I just treat it like a single-shot? Is there no fix for it?
(Edited by Randy at 5:10 pm on April 4, 2001)
It has trouble feeding the rounds from the magazine up to be chambered. The 22 shorts, especially, tilt upward & get 2 of them side-by-side. The longs & long rifles will often try to feed crooked. Sometimes it won't even cock until I push the next round forward with a screwdriver to clear the kicker.
I've put in new extractors & with some filing they "usually" work fine. About every 5th or 6th round has to be extracted with a pocket knife.
I've spent hours cleaning, scrubbing, polishing, oiling, wiping off the oil I just put on; only to have someone say "It's probly just dirty." I've sorted out the bullets (diameters) with micrometers & tried using only the small ones.
The local professional gunsmith has told me that 22 cal ammo has changed in the last decade or so and will probably never work right in such an old gun.
Dang! I've already bought scope mounts for it to see if it's as accurate at 300 yds as my cousin used to brag about.
Does anyone have any thoughts - what to look for? Is the smith right about changed ammo? Has anyone ever seen this before? What do I do? Should I just treat it like a single-shot? Is there no fix for it?
(Edited by Randy at 5:10 pm on April 4, 2001)