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Your action is a Savage model 4M

What you probably did was not get the mainspring on the hammer roller & in between the sides of the lower tang hammer slot. If it was off to the side enough when you levered the gun, the mainspring tip can get bound up inside the lower tang slot. As you lever it, or pull the hammer back, cocking...

Trying to find tubing that the inside is compatable with the outside is the problem. Now with the economy tightening up & the steel companies streamlining, the chance of finding the right tubing is about non-existant. Having the steel suppliers run a batch of special tubing drawn to your specs t...

OK people, we at Wisner's Inc are just running a batch of 1881 extractors. The question to this forum is what interchange is there between the small frame & the large frame guns when it comes to the extractors. We only have the small frame, (32-40) so do not have the 45-70 to measure. Would it b...

There is a difference between extraction & ejection. Extraction is the pulling of the case from the chamber, while ejection throws the fired case out the ejection port & away from the receiver. With everything functioning properly, the extractor does the first while the ejector does the seco...

Thanks for the info on the 88, I was only guessing as I have not had the opportunity to look closely at one. On the 89s you say that have no springs have you actually taken the rocker out of the carrier? The single coil ones I have seen, the spring is not visible unless you disassemble the rocker fr...

Thank you Marlinman. Sorry I created work for you, but now we have more light on the subject than before. It is my estimation from being a gunsmith/machinist/parts manufacturer for over 50 years & trying to look back at what the factory did during production, that probably the 1888 may have had ...

My coil spring types are factory I am sure as there is no indication they have ever been out of the carriers. The single coil carrier rocker spring was also found in a 38-40 carrier by Larry at LARC. I also talked to Dave Woods Saturday & he was was not aware of the 2 other types that I have, bu...

OK, I just looked in a 1905 Marlin catalog & I see the rocker spring you describe that is insered into the rocker itself kind of like the extractor springs of the same guns. However the 1897 catalogs do not even list a spring.

I have a 1889 32-20 s/n 45,71X & a 1894 25-20 s/n 143,84X that both have the single coil loop spring inset into a shallow recess in the top of carrier rocker. My limited experience of these guns led me to believe this was standard. I can see where the one you described would probably function mo...

I am trying to put together updated pages to my Brownells obsolete gun parts book. In drawing all the 1894 parts, I have come up with 2 different type of carrier springs. Hope you experts here can clarify things for me on this issue as once it is put to print, (right or wrong) it seems to be the gos...

The small tail's end really appears to be cut & not broken. And this short tail functions quite well. The safety lever has a pronounced downward bend at about 2/3rds the way forward. If the tail were to be full length, it would have to be arched considerably more than the wide tail to only hit o...

I have to agree with Jim, that the sear tail should be shorter than full length. In measuring my original, the sear tail is only 1.070 from the rear of the spring itself. To function as full length is hard for contact of the safety lever unless a severe bend is made on this tail, in that the lever b...