Bought this Buckmark Camper a couple years ago from a local pawn and gun shop. It's in pretty good condition and shoots well, but haven't gotten around to giving it really good scrubbing since I bought it. A couple days ago I decided to do that - the user manual is useless, btw. Anyway it went pretty well until I started to remove the recoil spring. OOPS! No retaining ring, and the spring goes flying across the room bouncing off a couple walls! Ok, so no problem I'll just order ring from Browning. Nope, not for $5 + $8 shipping. Off to my well stocked local hardware store to find something I could use in place of the Browning part. 75cents for a half dozen of 3 different sized E-Clips. Back home and can't get any of them to fit on the rod and capture the spring. These are tiny, almost microscopic clips, which didn't make things any easier (off camera cussing a lot)
. Alright get a grip. Posted a want ad on our local MS gun forum and got an answer from a member who had some Browning spares and he's mailing me one no charge! YES!
Now all that said, the absence of said retaining ring does not interfere with function. It just makes disassembly, and especially reassembly, much easier. So it should be here in a couple days and I can put the gun back together. Whew! I really like this little plinker but was not looking forward to future maintenance until now.
Old pic prior to this problem.
