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I recently acquired a model 36 9mm shotgun. I purchased some Fiocchi shells to use in it. The first time I fired it, the bolt wouldn’t extract the shell. I’d like to clean and polish the chamber to see if that helps but I couldn’t figure out how to remove the bolt. Does anyone have any advice on how to remove the bolt?
December 9, 2002
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terry,
I had the same issue, as I love these little gems, and shoot a couple, of them, as the others are safe queens I’ll hand down to my Sons, and grandsons.
Making absolutely sure the chamber doesn’t contain a live round, and pointing it in a safe direction;
1st remove the wood stock with the bolt closed and un-cocked.
2nd under the flat spring, is the extractor and by removing that gently, as it has pressure against it, by the flat spring. You can leave the flat spring in place.
3rd. You can now remove the bolt from the rear of the barrel, easily.
Check the barrel, and make sure it’s clear of obstructions, and now is a good time to clean the bore. Then with a small diameter, (smaller than .22 caliber), wood dowel, you can slit the wood dowel to hold the emery paper in place, or drill bit, I wrapped the smaller drill bit with some 120 grit emery paper, (using 3m contact spray holding the paper in place on the steel drill bit), after placing in my gun barrel vice, and wrapping it so it tightens while I turn it, I was able to clean it up, properly, and use 400 grit emery paper, to finish the process! This one worked great!
My late friend left one to me that was in poor shape, (chamber wise), and the outside was clean and pretty, with the exception of the bluing job that someone put on years ago. The 9mm. Fiocchi ammo works great, but understand that these we’re made from 1920-1929, for the Winchester paper cartridge ammo, in 9 mm. The brass cartridges sometimes can expand and get tight in the chamber, and even a good extractor won’t remove the brass shell! On this one, I did my homework and after cleaning, still had the stuck, fired cartridge syndrome, so I re bored the chamber, carefully, with the proper sized drill bit! Works like a charm, as we take this one to camp for varmints and fun shooting/plinking! By doing this, you need to make sure that you don’t go too far, and I taped my bit, using the proper measurements, as I don’t remember the sizes I used, but I started with a close tolerance bit, and went up as needed from there, a few times, if memory serves me correct. It’s really not that hard, just pay attention! 
Anthony
November 19, 2006
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Anthony said
terry,I had the same issue, as I love these little gems, and shoot a couple, of them, as the others are safe queens I’ll hand down to my Sons, and grandsons.
Making absolutely sure the chamber doesn’t contain a live round, and pointing it in a safe direction;
1st remove the wood stock with the bolt closed and un-cocked.
2nd under the flat spring, is the extractor and by removing that gently, as it has pressure against it, by the flat spring. You can leave the flat spring in place.
3rd. You can now remove the bolt from the rear of the barrel, easily.
Check the barrel, and make sure it’s clear of obstructions, and now is a good time to clean the bore. Then with a small diameter, (smaller than .22 caliber), wood dowel, you can slit the wood dowel to hold the emery paper in place, or drill bit, I wrapped the smaller drill bit with some 120 grit emery paper, (using 3m contact spray holding the paper in place on the steel drill bit), after placing in my gun barrel vice, and wrapping it so it tightens while I turn it, I was able to clean it up, properly, and use 400 grit emery paper, to finish the process! This one worked great!
My late friend left one to me that was in poor shape, (chamber wise), and the outside was clean and pretty, with the exception of the bluing job that someone put on years ago. The 9mm. Fiocchi ammo works great, but understand that these we’re made from 1920-1929, for the Winchester paper cartridge ammo, in 9 mm. The brass cartridges sometimes can expand and get tight in the chamber, and even a good extractor won’t remove the brass shell! On this one, I did my homework and after cleaning, still had the stuck, fired cartridge syndrome, so I re bored the chamber, carefully, with the proper sized drill bit! Works like a charm, as we take this one to camp for varmints and fun shooting/plinking! By doing this, you need to make sure that you don’t go too far, and I taped my bit, using the proper measurements, as I don’t remember the sizes I used, but I started with a close tolerance bit, and went up as needed from there, a few times, if memory serves me correct. It’s really not that hard, just pay attention!
Anthony
Anthony – very cool! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these in anything close to nice condition.
December 9, 2002
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Steve,
Their usually pretty worn and well used. I just like the little simple buggers, as their fun to shoot, and I was just telling my oldest son the other day, that as his two son’s get older I have one put away for each of them, and a load of the Fiocchi ammo, in all 4 available size shot, that Midway sells today. The shot is good out to about 20 feet, and it drops off pretty drastically after that. Just a simple little single shot, bolt action rifle, like the Winchester, model 1902,and the model 1904, with the small curled old style trigger guard. Total mfg. was 20,306, according to Bert’s Red Book.
Anthony
