Hi all,

Just curious if anyone else has had a similar experience. I recently bought a fine old Swiss Martini rifle in the rimless 7.5x55 Swiss (GP11) cartridge. One thing I noticed upon trying it out was that there was minimal ejection force when I pushed the lever forward. The brass would extract slightly but I had to use a screw driver to grab the extractor groove and gently push out the brass. 

After studying the below diagram from Otto Maretsch's book and playing around I realized the problem was that the falling block (B) wasn't moving low enough to contact the ejection lever at point E which would then rotate part A to ejection the brass. 

In trying to find a fix I noticed that at the bottom of my block were two holes. I'm not sure what the function are but what I ended up doing was sticking a small wood dowel into one of them to as shown in the second picture. After some trial and error I found the right depth of the dowel. When assembled now that dowel presses on the bottom of the ejector and allows it to rotate enough to eject the brass. 

This is my first Martini, could anyone else tell me if their Martini blocks also have such a hole and what they are for? Does anyone else have a plug in theirs to do the same thing here or should I go file for a patent? 

Cheers!
-David

Doubled,

Good point I should have used the word 'extractor' and not 'ejector' to describe the lever in the diagram and the problem I was having.

This is a Swiss Martini so it is a true Martini, only the Germans made the 'false' Martini derivatives. I have tried opening the action lever fast and slow and was still having the same problem. There simply wasn't enough contact between the block and the extractor lever to move the extractor. So the wood plug/dowel press fit into the blind hole solved the problem. I'm just not sure if that is a piece that was missing on mine or if the block typically should have enough contact to move the extractor.

Might try replacing the dowel with a roll pin trimmed to length.