Broke the Head off of the Capture Screw.

[brunnels]

Hey guys i just bought a Yugo Refurb K98, upon reassembling the rifle after cleaning the cosmoline i screwed in the capture screw for the front trigger guard bolt and the head snapped off I was very surprised as i only hand tightened it. The screw is so small is there any way of backing it out to replace? I tried researching it, but i have not seen anyone else with this problem which surprised me with how easily the head of the screw popped off.

 

[bda]

Pull out the trigger guard and see if you can drill it out from the back side.

 

[Hambone]

It's a lock screw. These will happen. You have to be very careful with them as when this is done in a $2000 rifle it sucks. The best way to handle this if you haven't or aren't tool savvy is bring it to a gunsmith (a real one) and give him $30 to back it out with a broken screw removal tool. You can try to grip it and twist it out with needle nose pliers, but that is probably not going to work. A real gunsmith has dealt with this as they deal with tiny screws.