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I recently discovered the screw which comes up from the bottom, the one with the screw head under the trigger guard to be loose on three different guns.
Has anyone experienced this? If so, do you make it a practice to periodically tighten this screw?
Should one consider setting this screw in say, green Locktite?
Comments appreciated.
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Those screws are called the breech pins. Yes, they should be tight. If it was my gun and insisted on using loctite, I would use blue.
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Keep those screws tight! Loose screws can lead to a cracked head. a single drop of green or blue locktight should work nicely.
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If the screw stands tall on the top tang then the bedding wood has shrunk from oil, age, weather changes over many years. This gun should be glass bedded so the ORIGINAL screw is even with the tang. This compressing of the wood is not uncommon and if the screws are just tightened it can lead to single trigger trouble. HOT is real sensitive and others are not far behind.
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+1 on what Bill said.
Winchester called the screw under the top lever the "upper tang screw" & the screw under the trigger guard the "trigger plate tang screw". The British would call them the "breech pin" & "hand pin" respectively.
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