I was just watching "The Lincoln Lawyer" after Matt gets shot in the end by the woman the camera pans over slowly and shows a 6" woodsman with pearl grips ....who ever thought of this was for sure a "gun guy "

Couldn't have cleaned this gun without this tutorial. Thanks!

This is by far the BEST field strip video for the Colt Huntsman/Woodsman I have seen. I bought a Bore Snake so I could put off having to do this...but I think the time is coming soon for a good cleaning. Thank you for making this very useful video.

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I put off making this video because that thing sucks to take apart 🤣

Excellent video. I dropped my slide and the recoil spring popped out. It was a P.I.A. to get back in and locked. I followed your video and everything went very smooth. Mine is a Targetsman made in 1942. It tore down and went back together just as your video explained. Thank you for an excellent video!!!

Thanks for the info! My dad (78 y/o) was just reunited with his dads Huntsman he remembers from childhood. We plan on shooting it next weekend. Now i know how to break it down. TY!

Nice looking example. Inherited my dad’s in 1976. He and his brother would shoot at cans and such in their back heard in Washington DC. Circa 1930s

One of the best you've ever fired, and no plastic parts . That little pistol will outlive all of us.

@workthetrigger

6 жыл бұрын

man is that the truth. it's already around 45ish years old and still is in great shape.

@nightcrawlr1035

3 жыл бұрын

Late comment but my grandfather just passed down his dad’s 1955 colt huntsman to me still works, but definitely needs a cleaning

Thanks for putting this video together; you made the job easy!

Would reccomend closer angles during the assembly portion. Especially with the leaf spring

Thanks for the info. Couldn’t have done it without the help of

I bought my Huntsman in '71. I lost the simple guide that came with it decades ago. It still runs flawlessly. Condition is99% with blueing gone at the muzzle from holster wear. My wife took a safety course years ago with that pistol and the RO offered her $500 for it. Thank for the mental refresher!

great video! sadly i traded off my huntsmen. the mags were a pain to find. thanks for the good video!

I have this pistol and tried to do the same thing and the leaf spring popped out, how the actual HELL did you get that back in there??? I can get it lined up but it just wont stay! Also if I get it in, when I am putting the back part back on, when you tit it back where is the skinny thing on the leaf spring suppose to go? You brushed over it SO fast with terminology I have no clue where its suppose to "fall back" to. Also if I cant get my firearm back together, where should I bring it.

I just cleaned my bedroom with this tutorial, thanks pal

Thank you for this service to Huntsman owners. I slowed you to .25x and you were like a drunken gunsmith in my ear.

Just inherited a Colt Woodsman Match Target that was hardly shot but needs a good cleaning. This will be helpful.

Very informative! Thank you

Thanks! great video! I really need somebody show me how to take care of this family relic.

The most important step: Get the recoil pin all the way up into the housing and locked in with the flat spring in the slide. If you can see the spring, you can't reassemble.

@AleisterCrowley33393

3 жыл бұрын

This is by far the most important advice!

I think this is the best field strip video of the Woodsman. However, I think that telling people to go ahead and take a part the slid is a bad idea. Getting that recoil spring back in place is one heck of a mother.

Thank you for this! Only one thing: I needed to do a full disassembly of one today and it turns out there's a tiny spring between the trigger and trigger bar. It popped out when I took the trigger out and now I don't know how it goes back in. Time for some trial and error while I "work the trigger." 🤣

Thanks... Is this the same procedure to COLT 22 LONG RIFLE AUTOMATIC

Can You show how to reasemble the trigger and spring inside it. Behind the cover on left side.

I can’t seem to get the hammer strut into the the pocket, been at if for over an hour but won’t close correctly.

I've got a prewoodsman, a pair of first series, a 2nd series match target and a huntsman along with some ruger mkii's and the colt 22s are way easier for me to tear down or assemble, I agree that the colts shoot way better but still won't give up my mkiis

Could you do a complete breakdown? I inherited this gun but it doesn’t function and I can’t figure out why. It seems to be something with the trigger. Can’t find a fill breakdown anywhere lol

Once upon a Time Quality came before Production Rate, this concludes today's lesson, haha.

My early woodsman (1927) does not have the pin. There is a pin forward of that for the sear. The gun is quite simple to field strip.

I did the disassembly as I saw in your video but when I assemble it as mentioned in the slide, it does not return by itself. what I do

Where can you get new grips for these

The only tip I would add to this video, is that you need to have the hammer all the way forward and just pushing up on it doesn't put it in the right spot. You need to push up or let gravity do it while pulling the trigger. I by no means had any other experience of disassembly prior to this video however that is one tip that would have saved me a few rewinds.

I have Colt 22 Lr made in '90s and the trigger is not functional now how to fix that ? ANy videos can you display?

Wow, i thought the Ruger Mark 1,2, or 3 would be the hardest to teardown and put back together. I have a Browning Buck Mark Bull's-eye Target with the 7 1/2 inch barrel on it. That Browning is so much easyer to take apart and put back together, love it to death and so accurate. Thanks for teaching me how to do this if i get a Colt Woodsman or Huntsman.

@workthetrigger

6 жыл бұрын

the problem with the my Mark series is the tight fits. this thing is just a PITA to get everything in the right place while you're putting it together. but like anything, do it 3 or 4 times trying to get it smooth for a video and it gets pretty easy. lol

@jerryjohnsonii4181

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, I appreciate the time you take to teach people on how to clean and maintain their firearms. I just don't know why KZread keeps on trying to stop that. You don't see KZread giving strikes out on how to build or maintain a CAR channel.

@workthetrigger

6 жыл бұрын

Amen

*ONE OF THE HARDEST PISTOL IVE EVER TAKEN APART* oh goodie. This should be fun

Necesito ver el resorte de esa pistola, tengo una Challenger y el mismo se me ha deteriorado

Do somebody know where can i buy this kind magazine. I lose my magazine of my hunt. Thank you i appreciate.

Confused where the tension spring connects to

A helpful video, but never ever shot dry from rimfire weapon, all you have to do, is pull back the lock by ~1mm and the pin will not hit ( and damage) the chamber.

buena marca la cold del caballo me justa

I have one of these Argentine model chrome

How to assemble spring that’s what I’m here for and he did not go through that

What an absolute PITA. I love this pistol but tonight was the first time I took it apart and I was close to chucking the thing in the garbage. Once I figured out the leaf spring it was fine.

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

right!?! it's insanely difficult. hell, i have to re-figure it out every time. took me like, 30 minutes to do this damn 4 minute video because of it 😂

@Wonky-Donkey

5 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger I think I spent well over an hour trying to put it back together. I kept putting the top end of the leaf spring into the slot on top. Once i figured out that you just lay it in there with the tab on the bottom in the little hole it came together fine.

@markschlichenmeyer6027

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wonky-Donkey I was doing the same, would be niece if they did a little more on the explanation of that spring and slow down a little,but other than that great video!

@ebeefhart

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wonky-Donkey I wish that I would have read your explanation of where to put the spring before I spent 4 hours and 3 Band-aids trying to put the top of the spring in that slot too. I mean, it looks exactly like it should go in there!!!

@Wonky-Donkey

4 жыл бұрын

@@ebeefhart yes and the sad thing is that I did that the first TWO times I cleaned the stupid thing.

So I have a Colt huntsman just like this I recently took it apart and put it back together over and over cuz the slide will go back and stay back and there will be no tension I can push it with my finger everythings in the right place

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

your recoil spring is locked. you should be able to pull it back to where it stops, and then pull it more and it should unlock the mechanism.

@stevengiem8495

5 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger thank you I tryed but it didn't unlock the mechanism but thank you for the help

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

@@stevengiem8495 maybe try fiddling with that button on top of the slide while you wiggle it around against the back stop. that's about all i can think off the top of my head. if i remember, i'll try to get it out tonight and try troubleshooting

I have a question where I can get some grips of this model of pistols?

@workthetrigger

Жыл бұрын

I have no clue, sorry

I wish all you disassembly people, especially working with .22 rimfire pistols and rifles, would try and use snap caps to protect the pistols chambers during dry fire.

@workthetrigger

Жыл бұрын

Not a big fan of disassembling pistols with anything in the chamber. innert or not. As much as I work with pistols, mostly assembled, I have a hard fast rule of "nothing in the chamber while working" with them. If I swap back and forth during design, disassembly, etc. then I may become complacent with seeing something in the chamber, and nobody needs a desk pop. with center fire guns, it's completely unneccessary. with .22, damaging the firing pin or rim face is just a risk you take if you're working on/with them.

On our gun, there's this little spring on the right side of the slide, and it came out. Do you know what that is?

@workthetrigger

3 жыл бұрын

😬😬😬 no clue. And honestly, I'm terrified to take it apart to look 😅

Good basic field stripping video for basic cleaning but I need to replace my 1935 vintage extractor which blew out when firing 1435fps ammo - something I won't be doing again. How hard is it to replace the extractor, spring & plunger? Gunsmith level or Joe-dinner-table level - like me? lol

@workthetrigger

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good question, I have no idea.

I have one from 1923 and had some trouble on the reassemble. Are newer ones easier?

@workthetrigger

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure, I've never tried one that old

@graedenius

4 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger that pin you pulled out was in a different place and VERY stiff, and when i romoved the main spring housing the spring fell out. I was able to put it back together, but it was hard.

Need a vid on the pre woodsman

@carson8418

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGeu07FrYqjKlc4.html Here you go!

Can you do I video on the trigger spring and bar please I’m stuck

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

To be honest... I'm scared to tear it down that far. What are you stuck with? Maybe I can look into it and tmtry to help you figure it out.

@coltons4436

5 жыл бұрын

WorkTheTrigger I was given this gun in a zip lock bag and I have no idea how the trigger spring goes on

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

@@coltons4436 Oh man, OK. i can pull mine down a little to see if i can figure it out and take some pictures for you. I"ll post the images on my FB page, but probably wont be for a few days

hey i am trying to rebuild a huntsman right now as we speak and i am having trouble with that leaf spring, how do i get it back in the diamond slot?

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

It should just fit right into that diamond slot. If it's not, check to make sure you're not hung up on something on the other end

@Haklure

5 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger ok, i can get the spring in but then once i do i can't flip the slide release up

@Haklure

5 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger and when i pull the trigger it is locked

@Haklure

5 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger i am thinking that the spring might be to strong

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

The trigger doesnt move at all? I'd say you've got the spring shoved up against the hammer. At this point I think the hammer is supposed to be released and up against the slide. Turn the gun upside down, pull the trigger, and try the install again. Sorry, I'm working from memory here so I may not be right

Great video, but it would be helpful if you could slow down a bit.

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the advice

@neuvocastezero1838

4 жыл бұрын

You can always use the 1/2 speed option in the settings if need be.

@JHKNVY02

4 жыл бұрын

@@neuvocastezero1838 The sounds gets very odd. More effective is to clearly, articulately explain the steps. See Swayback Jack's comment below.

@bigB6flyer

Жыл бұрын

At 0.75 speed it’s normal cadence.

I cannot find your FB page.

@jeanaller9246

5 жыл бұрын

Found it . It's just "WORK"

Why didn’t the slide lock open with the empty magazine.

@workthetrigger

4 жыл бұрын

I dont remember for sure, but i dont think the Huntsman has a last round hold open. i'll have to check this evening when i can the gun.

@mikeashcraft4354

4 жыл бұрын

There is no provision for one

I'm not sure how you made putting this thing back together look so easy but I'm getting really fucking pissed off with my papa's old 22. No wonder it was never cleaned before.

@workthetrigger

5 ай бұрын

Editing. Trust me, I hate putting this gun together.

Just like the others, I couldn't do it with out your vedio

Reassembling this gun was a nightmare for me. I never cussed so much in my life. I still love the gun though.

@workthetrigger

4 жыл бұрын

It's a nightmare for anyone that tries.

@SLAMTRON

4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the joys of Colt ownership and part of the reason we love them so much, it's the *passion!*

Cleaning this thing is like taking a sick cat to the vet. WORST: you'll get bloody and want to give it up. BEST: you'll get in and out and you'll wonder what the big deal was.

@workthetrigger

5 жыл бұрын

That's a perfect metaphor. the safety on this gun does like to try to take chunks out of my hand.

Always wanted one till I saw what a pain disassembly was thanks for talking me out of buying one

Porke. Se traba.

I would NOT recommend following this unless you really know what you're doing. I was gifted one of these by my grandfather as a gift for graduating high school and after disassembling this for preliminary cleaning, I couldn't reassemble it and it got to the point where it needed to be taken to a gunsmith to get it reassembled. The instructions for reassembly in this video don't make it clear how extremely difficult it is to actually put back together.

No, what we need is a slow tutorial....

@workthetrigger

4 жыл бұрын

You have access to a pause button and slower playback.

@SLAMTRON

4 жыл бұрын

@@workthetrigger LMAO!

This is Bullshit. I have a Target series 2 and this does not work on it!

No help. Now I can’t get it back together because you were going so fast and skipping parts