[fabsroman]

Billy,

The firing pin does not protrude at all. I would say that it sits flush with the bolt face.

Following your advice, I took the firing pin out of the bolt, and found that it had a ton of dried up loctite on both sides of it. That stuff would not just wipe off, so I had to scrape it off with a screwdriver. Next, I used a Dremel to polish both sides of the firing pin and the firing pin channel in the bolt. I oiled it all up before putting the firing pin back in the bolt. Since I had the bolt out again, I decided to clean out the entire action again. The last time this gun has been this clean is when I bought it.

The next snafu was the trigger mechanism. Seems as though the safety got spun around such that it would no longer let me pull the trigger. It took me about an hour to take the trigger mechanism apart, fix the safety, and put everything back together. My index finger on my left hand is still numb from holding down the sear spring while trying to put the sear and trigger back into the trigger assembly.

At this point, I feel as though I can disassemble and assemble a 10/22 while blindfolded.