Floor Plate Falls Out When Shooting

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k98dot16

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My first time shooting a recently acquired Mauser 98k. After loading five rounds a few times, the floor plate flew right off while shooting. It was definitely on tight when I started shooting and gradually loosened. Wondering if anyone has ran into this issue before.

The first picture you can see there is a gap between the plate and the trigger guard. Is that normal? Third picture also shows some scratches where the trigger guard and plate meet.
 

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That gap isn't normal, no.

Also your set screw is ready to fall out. You need to screw the action screw in as far as it will go then back it out just enough to line one of the notches up with the set screw, then screw the set screw in.
 
Floor plate is likely not fully seating into the locked position so that the spring loaded plunger fully engages.

Examine the lugs on the inside of the plate and their corresponding recesses in the trigger guard for deformation or burrs. Try another floor plate for fit. Then compare the two plates. Burrs can be removed by judicious stoning.
 
Are any of these additional pictures helpful?
 

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Cyrano4747 said:
That gap isn't normal, no.

Also your set screw is ready to fall out. You need to screw the action screw in as far as it will go then back it out just enough to line one of the notches up with the set screw, then screw the set screw in.
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Thanks for the callout in the set screw, I will be sure to adjust that
 
Floorplate is damaged. Get a replacement. This is obviously not a matching rifle and parts are scrubbed of inspections. Easiest thing to do imo to solve the issue and picking up a serialed random replacement should be relatively inexpensive and easy.
 
Mauserguy85 said:
Floorplate is damaged. Get a replacement. This is obviously not a matching rifle and parts are scrubbed of inspections. Easiest thing to do imo to solve the issue and picking up a serialed random replacement should be relatively inexpensive and easy.
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Easy enough!
 
Mauserguy85 said:
Floorplate is damaged. Get a replacement. This is obviously not a matching rifle and parts are scrubbed of inspections. Easiest thing to do imo to solve the issue and picking up a serialed random replacement should be relatively inexpensive and easy.
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Out of ignorance and curiosity, which picture shows it’s damaged?
 
k98dot16 said:
Out of ignorance and curiosity, which picture shows it’s damaged?
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That area is not supposed to be separated from each other…. Maybe somebody at some point tried prying the floorplate out of the triggerguard and this may have been the result…. Who knows but it’s damaged.
 

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Mauserguy85 said:
That area is not supposed to be separated from each other…. Maybe somebody at some point tried prying the floorplate out of the triggerguard and this may have been the result…. Who knows but it’s damaged.
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Got it. That’s what I was thinking too….
 
I have a byf 44 that's doing the same thing. I assumed that those parts are spot welded together and broke off after 80 years of people mishandling it.
 
Cyrano4747 said:
That gap isn't normal, no.

Also your set screw is ready to fall out. You need to screw the action screw in as far as it will go then back it out just enough to line one of the notches up with the set screw, then screw the set screw in.
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not in rebuttal, but to add:
in addition to the “clocking” the action screw notch, he needs to use a FRONT lock screw for the front action screw, the one shown is cut for the rear. They aren’t the same, the notch in the front screw is cut vertically, the rear on a slight angle, because it sits at an angle relative to the rear action screw. Sometimes they fit anyway, but often not. I see online sellers often not seeming to distinguish the difference when offering them for sale, they are a pair like the action screws. Later rifles used uncut round screws (no notches) those are ‘each’. I prefer cut screws because you don’t have to take them all the way off to loosen the action screws (usually/mostly/but sometimes) and so less likely to get lost. they’re $15/pair at midway or =.
 
Looks and sounds like an old numbskull pry attack with a screwdriver. Many K98ks have suffered this fate which is the result of moronic attempts to disassemble a K98k with a screwdriver usually assisted with a hammer, as evidenced by idiot marks on bands, band springs, triggerguard assemblies, etc. Said child or numbskull did not understand how a floorplate pops right off and pried it off causing damage to it and the floorplate latch mechanism. IMHO, the little push button “ledge” lock in there has been bent with corresponding damage to the corresponding floorplate cutout for it. Thus, there is insufficient surface locking area to hold in the floorplate under the follower flat spring tension with cartridges, particularly under the load / stress created by recoil.
 
You would think people would first open a book, buy a translated manual on eBay or just google or YouTubing a video before pulling out the hood old Home Depot husky flathead….
 
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