My learning curve about these vintage/antique Vetter-Vital 1870/87/15 rifles has been really interesting. They have a lot of manufacturing mods that was done to accept the 6.5 Carcano round. I'm not going into the history of what and why as I'm more interested in making my Vetterli-Vital a little smoother and more used friendly. I'm not a gunsmith but rather a guy that has been fiddling with firearms for the last 30 years. So please don't fault me on technical terms just to show me up. If you have some suggestions for improving what I am doing or have already done please chime in with any help you may want to offer.
YOU MIGHT ASK "WHY BOTHER!" BECAUSE IT'S THERE AND I LIKE TRYING TO MAKE IT BETTER! WIN OR LOOSE IT WAS FUN!
MILL/STONE/SAND EJECTOR PIN SLOT TO MAKE SMOOTH. AS YOU CAN SEE HOW ROUGH THE CHANNEL MILLING WAS DONE.
MAKE AN ALIGNMENT PLATE TO RIDE IN THE CHANNEL.
HANG PLATE OVER EJECTOR PIN.
END RESULT. THIS WILL TAKE UP A "LOT" OF BOLT SLOP.
SMOOTH FIRING PIN GUIDE/TRACK. VERY ROUGH. TRACK TOO WIDE FOR FIRING PIN AND DECIDED IT NEEDS INSERT PAN.
USED SHIM STOCK AS GROUND WORK FOR CREATING A STEEL PAN "OR" WIDEN FIRING PIN TO FIT CHANNEL.