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+1 do not worry happens on my K31 from time to time, I contacted the same forum several years ago got almost the same reply as you. Must have fired 500+ rounds GP11 and reloads since still going strong.

That must come as a great relief to you.

Glad you got a result.

Thanks for the replies.

It certainly is a relief to hear that it can happen inadvertently!

Falco;

My K31 bolt does the same thing. It always goes back together fine and never fails to function properly so I'm not in the least concerned.

Mezzer

falco67 wrote:I have had an answer on the Swiss Rifle message Board...

"staubyns,

Don't worry; these things happen. It's due to when you remove the bolt, depending how you place your finger and thumb around the bolt as you concentrate on depressing the bolt release lever with your other hand to completely remove the bolt, your thumb and forefinger tends to rotate the bolt cylinder slightly to the left, as you complete the bolt removal, which causes the ''slide bar'' to come out of alignment. I do it most of the time!

OldTimer"

that would explain why I've never experienced it, I always hold onto the operating rodhandle when I remove the bolt, sometimes its the little differences that get you

Hehe.. I have done it in the past as well and wondered what had gone wrong, the problem for me was it took a second to fall apart and nearly an hour to work out how to get it all back together first time it happened..

that would explain why I've never experienced it, I always hold onto the operating rodhandle when I remove the bolt, sometimes its the little differences that get you

and that will be me in the future smile2

Interesting to know, I've not experienced it but at least if it happens now I'm in the know.

On a slight tangent I had a similar occurrence with my Steyr prohunter bolt. Having shot and cleaned the rifle it went back into the cabinet until next time, next time came around and I got the rifle out and tried to put the bolt in it, the bolt went 97% of the way in but wouldn't close. Somewhat like an Enfield I thought I'd managed to decock the bolt but upon tinkering with it I managed to disassemble it. In my ignorance as I reassembled it I twisted the back of the bolt round too much in the bolt sleeve and actually decocked it this time. Safe to say it wouldn't go into the rifle!

After watching some helpful YouTube videos it appeared I wasn't the first person to do it so gently using a vice to grip the rear of the bolt we managed to separate the two parts of the bolt allowing me to reassemble it correctly. Upon returning it to the rifle it wouldn't go it, after some more Googling/ YouTube I found there is a sleeve/ gate in the receiver which will stop the bolt closing if it is rotated round (as it blocked the locking lugs from going into their recesses). Apparently this is easily done during cleaning with the brushes, using a long screw driver I managed to rotate the sleeve to allow the bolt to lock.

Apparently this sleeve or ring is a safety device to help port gases from a split case and is common on many Steyrs

It just goes to show the intricacies of rifles design and build which can trip us up.