Hey all, I am posting this up here to try and track down the person that bought a gun that has my bolt in it, and I bought a second gun that has theirs. The Anschutz that I bought is a 54MS (should be made in 1981 I think), but it has the wrong bolt in it. My gun has the thumb safety on the action and this bolt has the wing safety on the bolt. On my gun I cannot close the bolt because the firing pin catches the "catch link" too soon and stops the bolt. This model of bolt doesn't have the little notch in the front edge of the firing pin, it is just square (like you would see on a 1712).

An owner of several Anschutz rifles sold several of his to a shop in Washington state and he must have put my bolt in the first gun he sold. My bolt would have a firing pin with a notch in the face of it and would actually fit into the other gun but I highly doubt it would fire. If it does fire it must be getting some serious light strikes due to the firing pin not being fully cocked.

Any way, I am just putting out some feelers on my normal firearms forums trying to track down the other buyer that may have my bolt. If I can track that person down we can do a swap and both come out ahead.

(I also posted this on RFC)

Neal at ISS says that swapping the catch link in the 5018 trigger would allow me to use this bolt, but the catch links are about $120 for the part.

Besides, I'd MUCH rather have the correct bolt.

Do you have any more info on what shop and when they were sold to the shop so the possible owners might be able to more easily know if you're talking to them?

Hey Trent,
What Jason said, and also include the last three numbers of your rifles serial number, these numbers also appear on the front of the bolt.
Pete
In SW Washington