Thank you, I was messing around with my late grandfather's 1957 spanish mauser and when the bolt got stuck i panicked a little because I didn't know how badly I messed up. Easily fixed because of this video, very well explained!
I've had this happen, and always used the piece-of-wood-against-the-sear method. I too wondered what that slot in the cocking piece was for. THANK YOU for this video!
Thank you very much from Argentina. Here we love the 98 action (we call it 1909, the year our army incorporated it) and for the surplus market it is a rifle widely used by civilians.
You have no idea how much you helped me. I had another issue entirely where my safety would not turn from the firing position at all. But i never knew this trick and it actually solved my problem as well. Thanks man
Dude, your video was a life saver. I’ve owned my Mauser for over 40 years and never messed with the bolt. Until today… and I did exactly what you showed and spent an hour trying to figure it out. Until I found your video…THANK YOU!!!!
Seriously man I cannot thank you enough. Just bought a turkish mauser yesterday and was trying to clean it today and my hand slipped and knocked it to the fire position! I thought I was sunk. I used a flathead screw driver instead of a casing but it worked nonetheless. THANK YOU!
You’re the man for getting this info out! Has saved me twice now, I’ll never forget that cocking piece notch, with 8mm Mauser the lip just wasn’t enough but a 7.62x54r round with a lip worked great. Thanks again and God bless you!
I have an 104 year old Mauser 98 bolt that got unbelievably stuck, and using the knowledge imparted by this video of how it works, I was able to pull it against a table and get the safety to catch. Thank you so much!
One of the best explanations. I've seen somepeople rotate the handle anticlockwise and the safety clockwise to do the trick but this is more professional and less pain. Thank you very much
Great tip. I did this and got my safety back to where it’s suppose to be. Straight up. Here’s my issue. Put bolt back in. Switch to fire, squeeze trigger , pow.. then you still can’t return to safe , up. Have to take it out and do this again
The striker needs to be in the cocked position in order to engage the safety. No use in putting the safety on after one has fired the chambered round.... it's already safe! If I'm understanding correctly, If you open the bolt and close it again (in order to cock the gun), the safety should be free to engage. If that still doesn't work, the fitment between the cocking peice and the safety needs to be adjusted by reshaping the ramp on the safety. A gunsmith could do this, but trying a different safety might work instead, and is a cheaper option.
I didn't have a 7x57 cartridge to use, I tried .303 and .270 but couldn't get it out. Looping a shoelace around the lugs, holding onto the bolt handle with the left hand while pulling the shoelace with my right hand was easy, I then just rotated the safety by pushing it against the edge of a table. Good info in the video, thanks.
Very nice! I freaked out for just a second but before you revealed the rifle cartridge save I hooked that catch that gets locked in the groove of the bolt to the rifle receiver where the stripper clips go and was able to flip the flag up.
I tried the cartridge trick for about 10 minutes, but I must not be fit for the eastern front because my hand kept slipping and I couldn't push my finger enough to keep it spinning, so it would reset on me. Plus my hands hurt like hell afterwards. But, I found a pair of broken jumper cables and the prongs had a lip that fit just right into that slot, and I had something that was easier to pull on. So either way, you saved my ass man, thank you!!!!!
You're a lifesaver!! Works on Yugo M48 and the civilian Zastava M70 rifle (also a Mauser bolt). Shoelaces work best, since you can more easily rotate the bolt.
When I got my first K98 when I was 16 in 1997 before the days of RUclips 🙂... I took my bolt apart THE HARD WAY by painstakingly unscrewing it in the fire position. I think I used a piece of wood and my fingers to push that piece up and out of that cam several times to unscrew it completely. I remember my fingers being super sore lol
3:36, a much easier way to do that is to use the rim on the back of the bolt and hook it to a nice flat surface, like a table (something that you don't mind getting scratched). Then pull the whole bolt carrier down and then push the safety up. You'll get a lot more leverage this way.
I know how you felt, first time I did that, it took of sweat to pull on that slippery cooking piece with a peice of wood. This was before I learned the cartridge rim trick.
wierd. i baught a 1908 brazilian mauser as my first hunting rifle. and it has an aftermarket safety with one 2 positions so i struggled quite a bit with unscrewing it since u need the boom boom piece to be all the way back. so i have just used my hands to twist the bolt back into cocked position.
That notch is actually designed to recock the striker on a dud round. This keeps the action locked in case it's only a hang fire. Look at almost all military bolt action rifles of this Era. They all have a way of doing this.
Makes sense i guess I know you just need to raise and lower the bolt handle (no need to slide the bolt back and forth) to to cock a mauser, but it would definitely hurt If the round would go off while you just raised the cocking lever lol
Leave bolt in rifle...pull,back to,stop...loop a piece of string under cocking piece...pull back..pice will move back..turn safety to top position...press bolt lock in and unscrew
A war rifle needs a man to handle it not a bitch. Unfortunately, I was handling my M48 like a bitch until I saw this. Thanks a lot man. I was so desperate.
Hello there, I am having problems with my mauser bolt still. My Mauser is a brazilian 1908 and the safety and plunger and the back of the bolt won't come out or rotate.
Huh Magazine is quite literally a metal box with a spring in it which pushes a metal plate upward which pushes the bullets to where they have to be for the bolt to catch them... Or do you mean how to get the bottom plate off?
Have question. Not familiar with this rifle at all. Inherited one from my dad who has passed on. Great condition. I took out the bolt to clean yesterday. Not knowing the safety position rule. Took it out in the fire position. As of now I have the bolt back and the safety to the far right. I can return it to the slide this way. Should the safety rotate all the way back over? I can’t tell if it will because my scope is in the way. Thanks for any help. Really frustrated with the damn thing.
I'm having trouble visualizing your situation. If you have a local gunsmith I'm sure he can advise you and probably won't charge you anything. Even a knowledgeable clerk in a gun store could probably show you what to do. When the safety is all the way to the right the bolt can't be slid in or out, that is the bolt-lock position. Your scope situation is confusing me. I would say turn the safety to the full left(fire) position and it should insert into the action...if I am reading your problem correctly. If your scope is blocking the full function of your three position safety...that is not a good situation.
Your scope needs to be moved if it is interfering with the movement of the flag safety. The safety should be able to be set all the way to the left - as looking down the sights. This is the fire position. It should be able to stand straight up and down - for disassembly, and all the way to the right to lock the bolt and trigger in place (safe).
I've seen the video showing the technique you're reffering to. Rotating the cocking piece to compress the spring through a camming action, is quite difficult due to the lack of leverage. I have attempted it on 2 different bolts, and was successful. It is possible, but much finger strength is required. The British fellow in the video has a deactivated rifle. Along with the ground bolt face, locking lugs, safety lug, and clipped firing pin, maybe he also has a cut or worn out firing pin spring. Due to his nation's firearm laws, he may not be able to aquire ammunition in order to employ the method I've shown. (that last sentece was "just a little joke")
Thank you, I was messing around with my late grandfather's 1957 spanish mauser and when the bolt got stuck i panicked a little because I didn't know how badly I messed up. Easily fixed because of this video, very well explained!
If I could like this video a hundred times I would. Thank you so freaking much.
I've had this happen, and always used the piece-of-wood-against-the-sear method. I too wondered what that slot in the cocking piece was for. THANK YOU for this video!
Thank you very much from Argentina. Here we love the 98 action (we call it 1909, the year our army incorporated it) and for the surplus market it is a rifle widely used by civilians.
Thank you, I needed this to get my 98 going again.
You have no idea how much you helped me. I had another issue entirely where my safety would not turn from the firing position at all. But i never knew this trick and it actually solved my problem as well. Thanks man
Dude, your video was a life saver. I’ve owned my Mauser for over 40 years and never messed with the bolt. Until today… and I did exactly what you showed and spent an hour trying to figure it out. Until I found your video…THANK YOU!!!!
Thanks so much. My son and I had been cleaning his 1917 Mauser and ran into this problem. Thanks to your video, we got it fixed.
Seriously man I cannot thank you enough. Just bought a turkish mauser yesterday and was trying to clean it today and my hand slipped and knocked it to the fire position! I thought I was sunk. I used a flathead screw driver instead of a casing but it worked nonetheless. THANK YOU!
You’re the man for getting this info out! Has saved me twice now, I’ll never forget that cocking piece notch, with 8mm Mauser the lip just wasn’t enough but a 7.62x54r round with a lip worked great. Thanks again and God bless you!
I have an 104 year old Mauser 98 bolt that got unbelievably stuck, and using the knowledge imparted by this video of how it works, I was able to pull it against a table and get the safety to catch. Thank you so much!
Thanks! Best explanation I’ve found- and finding any explanation was hard! Thanks for putting stuck safety” in the title.
Wow, that's awesome knowledge for you to share, and it saved my bacon at the range today. Thanks so much!
I just picked up a Yugo m24/47 with a bolt stuck like this! Thank you so much, I was becoming so very frustrated. You've saved me from so much grief.
One of the best explanations. I've seen somepeople rotate the handle anticlockwise and the safety clockwise to do the trick but this is more professional and less pain. Thank you very much
Great tip. I did this and got my safety back to where it’s suppose to be. Straight up. Here’s my issue. Put bolt back in. Switch to fire, squeeze trigger , pow.. then you still can’t return to safe , up. Have to take it out and do this again
The striker needs to be in the cocked position in order to engage the safety. No use in putting the safety on after one has fired the chambered round.... it's already safe! If I'm understanding correctly, If you open the bolt and close it again (in order to cock the gun), the safety should be free to engage. If that still doesn't work, the fitment between the cocking peice and the safety needs to be adjusted by reshaping the ramp on the safety. A gunsmith could do this, but trying a different safety might work instead, and is a cheaper option.
This bullet trick saved me tonight.
I wondered what those notches were for on the cocking piece! Good to know!
I didn't have a 7x57 cartridge to use, I tried .303 and .270 but couldn't get it out. Looping a shoelace around the lugs, holding onto the bolt handle with the left hand while pulling the shoelace with my right hand was easy, I then just rotated the safety by pushing it against the edge of a table. Good info in the video, thanks.
Fabulous - thanks. Spent quite a while trying to figure this out before finding your clip 😊
Very nice! I freaked out for just a second but before you revealed the rifle cartridge save I hooked that catch that gets locked in the groove of the bolt to the rifle receiver where the stripper clips go and was able to flip the flag up.
I tried the cartridge trick for about 10 minutes, but I must not be fit for the eastern front because my hand kept slipping and I couldn't push my finger enough to keep it spinning, so it would reset on me. Plus my hands hurt like hell afterwards. But, I found a pair of broken jumper cables and the prongs had a lip that fit just right into that slot, and I had something that was easier to pull on. So either way, you saved my ass man, thank you!!!!!
Dang man thanks so much!! I thought i’d messed up my bolt!! So frustrating. I’ll be cleaning cosmoline for days
You're a lifesaver!! Works on Yugo M48 and the civilian Zastava M70 rifle (also a Mauser bolt). Shoelaces work best, since you can more easily rotate the bolt.
When I got my first K98 when I was 16 in 1997 before the days of RUclips 🙂... I took my bolt apart THE HARD WAY by painstakingly unscrewing it in the fire position. I think I used a piece of wood and my fingers to push that piece up and out of that cam several times to unscrew it completely. I remember my fingers being super sore lol
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I will say though that you made it look much easier than it was for me.
You are actually a Godsend, good day to you sir.
Thank you you helped me a lot! You saved me a trip to the gunsmith!
Very helpful!! Thank you so much!! Mine is locked up just like that!!! I’ll try that tomorrow!! Thanks again!!👍🏻
3:10 Big thanks! I used 7.62×54mmR. The rimmed cartridge is perfect for the job
Brilliant. Of course the germans would have thought of that, but i didnt. Thanks for the video
3:36, a much easier way to do that is to use the rim on the back of the bolt and hook it to a nice flat surface, like a table (something that you don't mind getting scratched). Then pull the whole bolt carrier down and then push the safety up. You'll get a lot more leverage this way.
Dude thank you, I ended up using the trigger guard to lift it up, I never would have thought about that. Thank you again
@@badjuju2721 Np! Glad I could help!
Bullet makes it cooler tho ;)
Thank you man, was great help for me, God bless.
Thank you so much you help me out with my 1909 Argentine Mauser! Great video liked and subed.
I'm gonna have to remember that for next time. Last time I just used brute force and twisted the end (not fun with oily hands).
good vid brotha i didnt do mine right the first time and you saved my butt!
Yep you saved my bacon along with others. Nice simple explanation and I don’t have to take it into someone and look like the noob I am.
Thank you so much, I was cleaning my friends gun and got it stuck.
you are a perfect man, thanks dude
Saved me time and headache thx
just had the same problem.... life saver!
Depends on how you look at it! Now that you've fixed it you're able to fire at the enemy!
Thank you man, I fucked up and locked her up. Save me so much trouble
I know how you felt, first time I did that, it took of sweat to pull on that slippery cooking piece with a peice of wood. This was before I learned the cartridge rim trick.
You saved my life thank you
Thanks. Helped me today.
Great video. I so wish I had seen it a week ago before so marred that lug up putting pressure on it to lift it. Now I have to replace it. :-/
Thank you very much sir that fixed my problem immediately. Thumbs up from me
wierd. i baught a 1908 brazilian mauser as my first hunting rifle. and it has an aftermarket safety with one 2 positions so i struggled quite a bit with unscrewing it since u need the boom boom piece to be all the way back. so i have just used my hands to twist the bolt back into cocked position.
Good job, sir.
That notch is actually designed to recock the striker on a dud round. This keeps the action locked in case it's only a hang fire. Look at almost all military bolt action rifles of this Era. They all have a way of doing this.
Makes sense i guess
I know you just need to raise and lower the bolt handle (no need to slide the bolt back and forth) to to cock a mauser, but it would definitely hurt If the round would go off while you just raised the cocking lever lol
Leave bolt in rifle...pull,back to,stop...loop a piece of string under cocking piece...pull back..pice will move back..turn safety to top position...press bolt lock in and unscrew
Mate... you’re a legend! Wish I could give you more than 1 like!
A war rifle needs a man to handle it not a bitch. Unfortunately, I was handling my M48 like a bitch until I saw this. Thanks a lot man. I was so desperate.
God damn I owe you. I fucking took my bolt out with the safety off like a jackass. Couldn’t get it back
Bro I fuckin love you!! You a life saver!!!
Thanks for the tip.
Thanks, I had 1938 Turkish Mauser that I couldn't get the bolt back in.
awesome info thanks!
The best tool, other than an empty cartridge, is the key that opens paint cans, this works the best, believe me, I know...
Hello there, I am having problems with my mauser bolt still. My Mauser is a brazilian 1908 and the safety and plunger and the back of the bolt won't come out or rotate.
Thanks you helped me
Cheers this was a real help.
Just saved my ass man thank you
Freaking life saver!!!!!!
I used a 7.62x54R the rim makes it more easy then the 8mm
Thank you so much
Great pro tip
Thanks a lot ! I love u.
Keren brother good luck
bless you!
Thanks for The video jeje
ww2 German K98K Mauser rifle bolt disassembly (bolt field strip)
Omg thank you for this
Thank you!
thanks bro
Thanks a lot.
good advise on the bolt but never use a live round as a tool that's bad business safety first !!!
THX !!!!!
Bro i was trying to solve that issue with its bullets but I when pulled the cocking piece it is removed from the bolt and now I can't fix it
Pull and twist. Not hard at all. It does take a stout grip, but you really don't need a table edge
The greatest bolt ever made. But i want to know how the magazine works
Huh
Magazine is quite literally a metal box with a spring in it which pushes a metal plate upward which pushes the bullets to where they have to be for the bolt to catch them...
Or do you mean how to get the bottom plate off?
clever
Have question. Not familiar with this rifle at all. Inherited one from my dad who has passed on. Great condition. I took out the bolt to clean yesterday. Not knowing the safety position rule. Took it out in the fire position. As of now I have the bolt back and the safety to the far right. I can return it to the slide this way. Should the safety rotate all the way back over? I can’t tell if it will because my scope is in the way. Thanks for any help. Really frustrated with the damn thing.
I'm having trouble visualizing your situation. If you have a local gunsmith I'm sure he can advise you and probably won't charge you anything. Even a knowledgeable clerk in a gun store could probably show you what to do. When the safety is all the way to the right the bolt can't be slid in or out, that is the bolt-lock position. Your scope situation is confusing me. I would say turn the safety to the full left(fire) position and it should insert into the action...if I am reading your problem correctly. If your scope is blocking the full function of your three position safety...that is not a good situation.
Your scope needs to be moved if it is interfering with the movement of the flag safety.
The safety should be able to be set all the way to the left - as looking down the sights. This is the fire position. It should be able to stand straight up and down - for disassembly, and all the way to the right to lock the bolt and trigger in place (safe).
Just soak the bolt in genuine German beer
It’ll loosen right up.
Just kidding.
You can rotate it back by hand
Thank you. If you could show us how on a video, that would be much appreciated.
I've seen the video showing the technique you're reffering to. Rotating the cocking piece to compress the spring through a camming action, is quite difficult due to the lack of leverage. I have attempted it on 2 different bolts, and was successful. It is possible, but much finger strength is required. The British fellow in the video has a deactivated rifle. Along with the ground bolt face, locking lugs, safety lug, and clipped firing pin, maybe he also has a cut or worn out firing pin spring. Due to his nation's firearm laws, he may not be able to aquire ammunition in order to employ the method I've shown. (that last sentece was "just a little joke")
Rotating it back by hand also does not address the issue of a flag safety not being in the vertical position.
Does this
pa kad niste sluzili vojsku i nema te pojma o zatvaracima , logika se ukljuci
You can easily disassemble it in any position of safety. Stop whining
You're right PaPa, we're sorry.
@@mechanicstuff7474 That's better, son
Thank you sir
Thank you so much.