I just received an used ruger gunsite scout rifle through gunbroker and have found an issue after just about 10 dry firing cycles.
Anyone familiar with the M77's 3-position safety will understand that when the safety lever is flipped into the Safe position, it presses a pin forward. I am...
Thanks for the advice so far.
I have tried it without the extractor, no difference. To get the case back out, I had to bang on a wood dowl fro the muzzle pretty good with a rubber mallet. I've inspected all metal surfaces of the bolt, and there doesn't appear anything out of the ordinary...
Update, since getting back home I've tried some old fired cases from the previous rifle and there is the same problem. So, I've ruled out overpressure and/or excessive brass expansion. I've also taken a closer look at the bolt caming, and the difficulty was definitely correlated to the bolt...
Primers look good. However, there are scrape marks over the head stamps. Usually about 5mm by 5mm.
It will chamber and close on every round I have perfectly (including old rounds I used for a previous rifle), though I don't have any factory ammo to fire from it. I am using brass that I used...
So I just took my new Hawkeye FTW to the range to work up some hunting loads. Immediately after the first fired round (which was a starting load), I rotate the bolt back up to slide out but the bolt stops rotating before the final ~5 degrees of bolt rotation. I have to lower it back, which is...
You know, that's pretty much what I am looking for, said differently.
I just might pull the trigger on the Alaskan but it's hard to get passed the barrel that is almost wider than it is long.
It seems to me that Ruger could tap into a market by chambering their existing Redhawk with a 4.5-5" barrel in a 480 Ruger. Anyone agree or disagree? And yes, this is a bear defense weapon; which as fantastical as the situation is, most of these big bore revolvers are popular for.
With the...