Posted by: PigTech on April 23, 2003 at 13:33:58 Forum Moderator

: Hoping someone can help me out here. I have a custom milled cocker body that I picked up somewhere along the way, and I am building a gun for my fiance with it. A minor problem I am running into is that the body has no hole for a ball detent. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to the proper placement of the hole, and standard thread size of most detents? I am assuming that it should be about 1/2" behind the bolt face with a fully closed bolt, just based on my other cocker, but wanted to check here before I start drilling and tapping. : Thanks. Don't put the cart before the horse - get the detents you are going to use first. Then, measure how far they will stick into the breech, and figure their placement where they will not interfere with the ball falling in, but will keep it from rolling forward. : P.S. Learned a valuable 'cocker maintenance lesson at the field the other day. If you all of a sudden can't seem to get normal velocities out of your gun no matter what main spring you try....STOP. Pull the hammer and make sure that your valve retaining nut isn't loose. Luckily I put the gun away and played with a backup before I shot it too many times, but that steel nut banging around against aluminum threads every time you shoot it could probably strip out the threads quickly, and ruin your body. Yep. See you on the field, -Bill Mills

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