I can't recock my Mauser bolt to reinstall it on my Chek (VZ.24?) 8mm. Safety won't move from full-right.

Bound's hubby here:

It sounds like your Mauser has seen some degree of customization.

First, your Mauser has a Buehler, after market safety, which is actually reversed from the factory standard safety found on Mausers. With the safety lever fully to the right, your rifle is ready to fire. When the lever is straight up, the firing pin is locked, but the bolt can be cycled. When the safety lever is fully to the left, both the bolt and the firing pin are locked, and the bolt can not be cycled. A smart move, once you get your rifle re-assembled, is to cock the bolt, and put the safety lever "straight-up"!

The Mauser rifle actually is backward from most American-made bolt action rifles (particularly the Springfield). On the Mauser, the firing pin cocks when the bolt is closed and the bolt handle is puched down. More than likely, when you removed the bolt from the receiver, the bolt handle pivoted back into battery. What you have to do is a two-handed job, and will probably be messy!

Before you follow the four steps below, you might be lucky and get away with an easy fix.

Easy fix:

First, hold the bolt assembly in your left hand.

Second, if the extractor (the metal "hoop" on the bolt body) is lined up with the bolt locking lug, glide the extrator clockwise, so it is at a right angle to the bolt lug, and slide the bolt into your receiver.

If this did not work, you need the dirtier, more difficult fix:

First, grasp the bolt body in your left hand, with the bolt facing away from you.

Second, place your right hand on the rear of the bolt with the bolt handle resting in the web of your right hand between your thumb and index finger.

Third, while gripping both parts of the bolt, twist both hands together while pulling them apart (kinda stretching the bolt).

Fourth, as the bolt twists and the bolt handle moves toward your body, flip the safety lever with your right thumb so it is "straight-up", locking the firing pin.

Once you complete these four steps, you should be able to slide the bolt into the receiver (on the rails) properly as you "pull-out" the bolt "lever" on the left side of the receiver. The bolt "lever" also serves, when closed, as your cartridge ejector.

Mauser Bolt

Vz24 Mauser

I'm no mauser expert, but I own two of them, and you have me confused. When the safety selector is set LEFT, it is ready to fire. CENTER keeps the bolt from releasing, but allows cycling, RIGHT locks bolt into position, and won't allow it to open. I can only remove the bolt with the safety in left or center postion, and cannot switch it to right once removed. Is it going in part way and hitting the magazine plate? Did your extractor get turned? It needs to be approx 180 degrees from the claw to reinsert. This would prevent the bolt from lining up. Good luck. I'm sure if this doesn't help, somebody who knows more about it than us will answer.

I have a Vz24 Mauser, it doesn't matter what markings or serial numbers it has, it's a Vz24 8mm Mauser. There is a lever on the left side of the receiver, right next to where the bolt comes out. You have to hold out while you slide the bolt in.

I believe you also have to hold it out while removing the bolt. The position of the safety is irrelevant.

I actually have a Yugo M48... i assume you have merely bumped off the bolt with out disassembling the bolt. it extremely is not appropriate if the protection lever is flipped to the left facet. you're able to desire to pull the bolt launch lever on the left facet of the receiver then push the bolt returned into the receiver. If this would not artwork you're transforming into inadvertently turned around the extractor claw. merely rotate it returned to the splendid facet of the bolt, pull bolt launch lever, and re-insert.

Just guessing I would have to say the sear a lot of problems like this are related to older heavily used guns. a sear costs about $5.00 probably needs replaced anyway.

try a screw driver and pull the little bar to the rear as you rotate the safty works on a 98grew