How do you field strip a 22 caliber Iver Johnson US carbine?

Answer 1

Ensure the gun is unloaded. Remove the magazine. Pull back the operating slide and visually inspect the barrel to make sure there is not a round chambered. Loosen the screw on the band on the forward end of the stock and slide the band forward. Remove the hand guard. Remove the screw just behind the trigger guard. Remove the stock. Pull back on the operating slide spring and hold it while pulling the operating slide spring guide out of trigger housing. Carefully relieve the tension on the spring, then slide the spring guide out. Remove the trigger housing retaining screw and the two trigger housing retaining pins. Lift the receiver away from the trigger housing. Remove the operating slide by sliding it forward. Lift out the recoil plate. (Careful – it is under tension from the firing pin spring). Remove the bolt and firing pin piece and slide them apart. You have now field stripped your Iver Johnson .22 cal. carbine.