Any pictures?


Thanks,
Tom Klinger

I have one, and like frnkeore said, most is interchangeable with winchester.

A side piece of information on them, or at least mine.  I rebarreled mine from the thin, light barrel .45-70 it was in.  The barrel is the hardest to remove I have ever experienced, in removing a few hundred barrels from all kinds of actions.  Harder than p-14's and 1917's.  Harder than rolling blocks.  Harder than thread locked remington 700's.  I used a hydraulic vise at a friends, because mine wouldn't hold.  I heated the action.  I used penetrating oil, froze and then heated.  Every trick I could think of.  It wouldn't budge.  Eventually got it pulled by putting a several foot long pipe on the wrench, hung my weight on it, and had a friend hit the wrench with a 8 pound hammer while another heated the receiver with a torch.  It broke loose with a loud crack, but not before the barrel twisted in a slow spiral, wrinkling the outside of the barrel. The threads didn't appear to be galled or glued, just high torque.  I thought for a while I was going to have to cut off the barrel and bore it out.  I've had to do that on galled actions before, and then retap.

The only other one I recall being nearly as hard to remove was a 40x .22 cmp rifle.  It was overly tight thread diameter, was hard to not only break loose, but took high torque all the way out.  New barrel threaded to slightly smaller diameter went in easily. 

Sorry about the size of the photo.

Not an original firing pin for sure.  I am not familiar with those rifles, but you can find originals with spring loaded firing pins.  I have made one myself from a breech block that I bought with a threaded hole in the face.  That pin does not look hard to make if you needed a replacement.  I had a Cumberland Arms clone that used a spring loaded pin as well of a different style.

Jack

there are three of those firing pins on my shop floor someplace, I'm shaking too bad to turn something small as .070
what I did is drill the step to .070, cut a piece of Drill rod .070 super glue it in, fit to block, firing pin extension, cut to fit and polish the end
I did this for some one but never heard back from him
fixed three High Wall firing pins this way, For Jerry DeVauderiul

45govt: I downloaded your photo of the Clerke catalog. Is it okay for me to have a photo printed of it? 

Royce wrote on Jan 14^th, 2025 at 1:06pm:

Hello Royce, Of course you can print it