Thread: Help! Browning Blr timing- Taupo gunsmith

I've gone and got my BLR recrowned and threaded. Guncity sent it away to a gunsmith to get done and I made a point of how important the timing is.

I've picked it up as I rushed down to Taupo and didn't check the timing on the action.
It's not right. Lever isn't smooth and it's hitting the hammer.

Has anyone retimed them? Is there a Taupo gunsmith worth their salt?

Any help would be bloody good so I don't have to use it as a club this weekend!

Cheers

None that I know of.

You should be able to retime it easily but you need to cleanly remove the two pivoting pins of the lever and sprocket wheel.
Maybe Mark Bridgemont could give you a hand ?

They're a pain in the arse. Only ever pulled mine to bits once.


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yip its a fiddly business, took me a bout half an hour to get it right. with ours its a matter of wiggling lever into place then poking pin back in and retrying it over and again until happy with its placement then pushing pin back home.
I'm a techtard who isn't mechanically minded and managed it with 2 nails and a small hammer.
I have to be careful when reloading to push shoulder back quite a bit or it wont function properly. reworking lever a couple of times half in n out will get tricky round to chamber properly
trial and error ours seemed to only really have one spot that is right and any teeth either way was way out.

I now get them together first time every time, there is a bit of a trick to them. Blr are easy to pull apart . Now the sako fin wolf is a hell of different business !

lol sorry bro why the fuck did you do that when you new you were going hunting I just picked it up for you from wills after someone took it apart and didn't put it together right guncity don't even use a smith for threading work only a falla that knows how to cut a thread they normally strip them inshore then just take him the barrels I'm guessing your going with cam? dose he have a spare otherwise my 260 is here will need sighting though

Bah! Had to just go for a walk.
Major disappointment to send to a gunsmith and for it not to be put together properly.

Originally Posted by Friwi

I now get them together first time every time, there is a bit of a trick to them. Blr are easy to pull apart . Now the sako fin wolf is a hell of different business !

You can say that again. Bitches of things.
I'm sure Mark at Custom Cartridges will be able to help. He has seen one or two of them (even my old Miroku 308).

Originally Posted by Friwi

I now get them together first time every time, there is a bit of a trick to them. Blr are easy to pull apart . Now the sako fin wolf is a hell of different business !

Nah, everyone says that but they arent all that bad. Only hassle is getting the sprockets in the right place but I now have it down to a fine art

yeh the internet is full of, "dont pull them apart" which dosnt help, maybe try Allan Carr in Paraparaumu? or Scott Trail in Featherston(SSRNZ) , ive only ever been super happy with EVERYTHING those guys have done for me....

they are easy enough to do yourself. easiest way is magnetise the planetary gears etc and then insert them while stuck to the lever assembly. they will demagnetise themselves after a few shots have been fired

Arthur Cleland in Hamilton is usually pretty good. David Dwen used to be around up here, but not sure if he's about anymore.