Thread: DO YOU HAVE A FIREARM WITH SOME INHERENT PROBLEM.

Originally Posted by Scribe

BSA Monarchs and Majestic's had real troublesome chambers. I have read of the same problem with the BSA Hunter.
After a few weeks hunting you could hardly shut bolt or extract fired case. I know the problem was mostly caused by loading rounds into the magazine with bloody hands and the blood was probably cooking onto the chamber walls.

And yet I never had the same problem with any other make of rifle.

We used to have to polish the shit out of the chambers with steel wool just to carry on shooting.

perhaps only in 222/223? My majestic in 308 had such a large chamber fired cases came out looking like a 284 body.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

perhaps only in 222/223? My majestic in 308 had such a large chamber fired cases came out looking like a 284 body.

Probably all that cleaning the chamber with steel wool

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

perhaps only in 222/223? My majestic in 308 had such a large chamber fired cases came out looking like a 284 body.

Hi Cam, I think you may have touched on the problem here. I was talking about the Monarch and Majestic in 243.

I reckon the chambers were 'sloppy' and a certain amount of rubbish and blood got in and baked onto the chamber walls. I don't know if this is the reason but it is a theory I have had for a long time. I am no gunsmith but I am thinking maybe a better fitting chamber would have scraped a lot of the shit off as you chambered the shell. I have never had chambering problems before or since as I had with those two rifles.

We used to joke about accidently trying to chamber a reload from either of those rifles into the Sako's how you would chuck it away thinking it was .270.

Could be,mine was certainly a sloppy chamber! I think it was probably borderline dangerous how much the brass stretched.

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Originally Posted by Toby

Probably all that cleaning the chamber with steel wool

I agree 'Toby' the steel wool wouldn't do the chamber much good but we didn't have a lot of choice we had to make every fine day count.

It would take us a day to walk out of the block, a day to drive to town buy a new rifle or get the old one fixed and a day to walk back in to the block. Field Officers were notoriously touchy about you being off your block too often. I was bad enough that on two occasions I looked through my scope and found they had become goldfish bowls.

Originally Posted by Mauser308

I've got a mate's BSA here, I can shoot out of my M700 .308, necksize and reload and shoot out of the M305, necksize and reload and still chamber in the BSA. Yikes...

Big Sloppy Alcove ?

Originally Posted by Maca49

Without the bolt? Should only should semi autos or lever actions etc etc

"Should only should"....what the fuck is that???

Originally Posted by Steveh054

"Should only should"....what the fuck is that???

He's old...leave him alone

Originally Posted by Carpe Diem

Yep main complaint nah really it's a nagging "I wish" with my Tikka 7mm Rem mag is mag length or was easy to alter my magazine to fit Amax's -the need to replace bottom metal and mag to get 162 Amax's to fit the mag is a bit of a pain. Not that I should worry too much, as it shoots like a laser that 1 round and hand feeds should be enough for most situations.

Oh and a slightly thicker barrel that means you can shoot more than 3 shot groups within 10mins without the barrel getting too hot (under the Gen IV Suppressor) would be nice, so you don't start encountering heat walking of rounds on target. But that's as they say the grain of sand in the Oyster....

I found the solution for my Tikkas, i got a second one in super varmint model, still can't feed the amax's via magazine and or take for "long" uphill walks but i have fun target shooting. Just put my hands on the DPT muzzle forward, can't wait to shoot thru it.

Mac

Did the early Sako's have an inherent fault in that the were equipped with Bofor's steel micro groove barrels.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Big Sloppy Alcove ?

I think we've all experience at least one of those.

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

I think we've all experience at least one of those.

OH lordy (2)....wheres this thread going......?

My Marlin 795 is very picky with what ammo it likes to run/cycle, unfortunately it seems to only really like CCI or Lapua. Lucky CCI Subs are so easy to get

Also all mine seem to explode each time I squeeze the trigger, lucky for me they only seem to spit bits in one direction

Originally Posted by Scribe

Did the early Sako's have an inherent fault in that the were equipped with Bofor's steel micro groove barrels.

These were extremely accurate barrels but did we get full value from them or did they wear out too quickly.