re: Gun repair or let it go.

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Well both really. I cleaned it up pretty good and the ejecting got better not 100% though. Now the firing pin just barely dents the shell. I can pull the trigger twice and it will sometimes fire. Just don't like messing with half fired shells. You guys have convinced me. Gonna take them all in after the season. Thanks for the help.

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That is probably just gunk inside the bolt. You didn't mention it, so I doubt you really took it down for a thorough cleaning. I say that because if you had taken than particular model down, you definitely would have thought it worth mentioning. It is a pretty involved process to remove the trigger group and bolt on the Auto-5 and sometimes the Remington and Savage versions have just a minor variation or two that make it even more difficult. It isn't broken, but you will probably be better off getting a gunsmith familiar with the Auto-5 to do it. You can do it, but it is definitely old school stuff.

But I guarantee you the ejection problem is just that the friction rings are adjusted wrongly. You can do that. It is easy.

Before you take it to a gunsmith, open the bolt and spray something like carburator cleaner in there and really let it soak down in the bolt. You might even get some Kroil oil or something that will really penetrate and loosen some of that gunk that is in that old bolt. Spray it down really well, let it sit overnight, and see if that helps.

Make sure you get the carburator cleaner down in the trigger group area as well. That gun was made in the late 40s, so you probably have nearly 70 years of gun oil and gunk in there that have clogged it up.