RE: firing pin spring retainer

Howdy.

I don't have anything to check head space with, but i do have a few of the wolf 115 fmj's I was using when my retainer broke. I dropped one of the wolfs into my chamber and tried to close the action on it. The toggle will not fully seat and bring the breechblock all the way to the chamber face. I have no calipers, but I am estimating the distance between the breechblock face and the chamber face to be ~1/32 of an inch.

Sooooooooo, not knowing a whole lot about headspace requirements, can I assume that though the breechblock is close enough to the primer to allow the pin to strike it, it is still far enough away to allow for the damage my pistol has sustained? I'm thinking the case was allowed to pop back from the chamber into my pin and BB possibly causing the damage to my retainer?


Or maybe it's been a long day and my brain is tired.


Terrapin-