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ugly said:I tried but was unable to incorrectly assemble my Ross bolt, I even fired it with the bolt release in the release position and it seemed to be ok, it was a M1910 Mk3.
Mine is an M10 as well...
The problem with the bolt is a little difficult to describe, but is essentally to do with the rotation of the head. As you will know, you have to rotate the bolt head a quarter turn against it's spring before you can fit it into the gun. The rotation of the head is stopped at the 90degree point by the extractor bar. It is possible to rotate the head further past the bar by forcing the stud in the extractor past the groove in the head. If you do this for another 90 degrees the head will drop back flush with the bolt body. The bolt is then 180 degrees out of alignment and can be fitted to the rifle, in this state it will chamber a round, but the bolt head will not rotate when it enters the breech. The striker will come forward and intiate the round, but the breech is still unlocked and will fail catastrophically.
You have to be quite a determined mong to get this wrong, however as they say...
I toyed around with posting a set of instructions on how to correctly strip and reassemble the bolt, but thought that this may be tempting fate...
Dunno - what do you think..?