Remington 511 sear

[alanganes]

You could be correct on the safety being the stop now that you mention that. That the sear acts as the bolt stop is something that I had read in a few places while researching this. You have to release the safety and pull the trigger to remove the bolt. So I can convince myself either way(!).

Late breaking edit: You got my curiosity up, so I went out to have a look. I put the trigger/sear assembly in the receiver with all of the safety components out of the gun and found that the sear does, in fact double as the bolt stop.

Here are a few pics. Sorry for the marginal photos, was using my phone camera:










Would these typically be hardened or case hardened? Any idea?

Looks simple enough in form, but you can see where the once sharp edge has been chipped or just mashed over. A replacement is only around 15 buck, so I'm not sure it is even worth trying to effect any sort of repair on the existing part, unless one just wanted to do it just to say you did.

Some of what I read suggests that this is an "improved" replacement part, but I'm not 100% sure that is true:

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