doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Cant close action: Firing pins in the way

If you’re going to try cocking this way don’t do it on a piece of furniture. Do it on the edge of a wood bench or a piece of wood clamped into a vise.

Or…..you can remove the actions cover plate and cock the action by pushing down on the seam created by the cocking limb & hammer/tumbler. This cocks the action. Do this by using a piece of wood or a non-marring tool made from copper or brass. Do not use a screwdriver or a steel punch.🤨
This method will save the edge of the table and also prevent you from potentially damaging pieces like ejector cocking limbs etc.
This method is also useful if you have the barrels attached and you can’t open the action (striker/tumbler issue, etc).

Would removing the extractors from the barrel and then assembling the gun work. I'm thinking one might then cock the gun.

"I suspect, as others have suggested, you need to cock the gun by pushing on the cocking dogs. I would only add to do one at a time. Pressing them on the edge of a table takes a good bit of force." Nitrah

However, do not use your wife's antique dining room table for this operation...Geo

now, that is truly sage advice....

best regards,
tom

It's really simple don't work on the gun without proper tools don't remove anything you don't have to and jack was a great guy always treated me great .when I have questions about the trade or gun work I really miss jack and len.

Try using the forend to re-cock it.

Mark;

When Jack Rowe (one of the Dean's of British Gunsmithing) agreed to work with Midway to produce the videos of Jack demonstrating techniques mostly of Boxlock British guns, Jack was already about 5 years into suffering significantly from Parkinson's Disease. He had only a couple of more years to live. In his case the Parkinson's caused many issues, one of which was his word pronunciation and in a year or so it was almost impossible for me to understand what he was saying our telephone calls of about every two weeks--sometimes I could only pick up maybe 20 per cent of what he was telling me about the gun trade of Birmingham to where I could take note.

Jack was extremely interested in teaching others how to properly repair and build British guns and he wanted to do the Midway videos very much. One of the venues of his teaching was down at Tishomingo, Oklahoma at the Murray State College where he was scheduled to teach several days. Jack did not show up for this class and someone drove up to his home and found him dead (I think my memory was correct in this).

Back in 1999 I videoed much of his lecture at Murray State College and have it on a VHS video--all in the clear voice and humor of his own. If there is a reader here who is capable of taking this video and downloading it to modern video format I would like to know about it so that I can then have it to give to others at only the cost occurred in making the copy. This video shows Jack's famous flaming linseed oil soaked T shirt wrapped bun buttstock bending as well as some of the "tales" of the Birmingham gun trade---Jack did not suffer the under-educated easily.

Unfortunately, I never met Len.

Kindest Regards;
Stephen Howell

Everytime I talked to jack he asked how len was, when len died I called jack to tell him he was surprised because len was so young I think 10 years between them.i would contribute to having the video tape transfered that would be great to have.Mark

I think jack died in a retirement home I had talked to him when he was there he wanted to get back to work but passed soon after I might have the home messed up.