I've got a 10/22 TGT that I've hacked on quite a bit. Not shot it much lately, and last June I took it out gophering and was getting duds in Win PP and CCI. Well, dummy, I hadn't cleaned the firing pin since I'd field stripped it out of the box. So, it's all pretty now, I stoned the sides of the pin, put it away, shoot it a little. Haven't had a chance to hunt it again since then.
I am still not real happy with the strike marks on fired cases and I can feel some inconsistency in recoil, those tend to be group flyers...like the primer goop wasn't ignited firmly. Have any of you taken a stone to the firing pin tip, narrow it down a hair to concentrate the striking force a bit better?
Or, is this a hammer-spring kind of deal? The rifle is probably 20 years old.
