One of the local pawn shops Willard and I frequent has a 91/30 with a trigger flopping in the wind. With the trigger like that, you couldn't get the bolt out. With the bolt in, you can't really get at the rear trigger assembly screw.
Had, I should say.
I managed to get the rear screw out with a too small screwdriver and some patience, luckily it was not very tight.
Once that was out it was obvious the trigger pin was absent.
We just won't contemplate the effort it took to bull the bolt into the gun without being able to pull the trigger.
It turns out that one of the places that has lots of Mosin parts on the interwebs is local to us here, so a quick road trip down to Clearwater and Mark Kubes yielded the part and another quick trip got us back to the pawn shop where reassembly was simple and easy.
Now to resist the temptation of an M91/30 with a 1922 barrel and a hex receiver. Not how it left the factory, but it's an interesting example.
Had, I should say.
I managed to get the rear screw out with a too small screwdriver and some patience, luckily it was not very tight.
Once that was out it was obvious the trigger pin was absent.
We just won't contemplate the effort it took to bull the bolt into the gun without being able to pull the trigger.
It turns out that one of the places that has lots of Mosin parts on the interwebs is local to us here, so a quick road trip down to Clearwater and Mark Kubes yielded the part and another quick trip got us back to the pawn shop where reassembly was simple and easy.
Now to resist the temptation of an M91/30 with a 1922 barrel and a hex receiver. Not how it left the factory, but it's an interesting example.