Thread: Winter Rifle Maintenance. The Action: bolt, trigger, magazine

Originally Posted by tikka

I like how the Sako and Tikka bolts strip down so easily, do it most trips at night if I am board or if had a lot of rain, mud, dust or salt water/spray on it from the boat doing beach landings. I had only had two times went the trigger wasn't working properly from a build up of dust in the trigger mechanism ( too much crawling on the ground on windy days getting into a good shooting position ). I ended up using white spirits from my cooker to clean it out. I hate striping Remington bolts, too bloody fiddly doing it without tools but it can be done.

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