CRF?

[Founding member]

Bought a secondhand Hawkeye short action in 7mm/08.Loaded some dummy rounds.Bolt strips cartridge from magazine but extractor doesn't catch groove until round is chambered.This seems to be more like a push feed action.Any ideas?

 

[Founding member]

Bought a second hand Hawkeye short action in 7mm-08.Loaded some dummy rounds.Bolt strips cartridge from magazine,but extractor doesn't grab groove until round is chambered.Functions like a push feed.Follower seems to have good tension.Any ideas?

 

[DGW1949]

I'm not familiar with the "Hawkeye"....but....whether or not it is a controlled-feed dictates how the extractor is made....two different actions, two different types of extractors.

DGW

 

[thinckley]

The Ruger M77 (now Hawkeye) uses a non-rotating, Mauser-type controlled round feed extractor. I can check on my M77 MKII to see if it is behaving the same way.

 

[Founding member]

Its a Hawkeye,that's why I posted

 

[hittman]

Call Ruger yet?

 

[Founding member]

No

 

[Klondike Mike]

My 77 MKII 308 is the same but my latest Hawkeyes are true CRF.

 

[kmoore]

My Hawkeye "FTW" does the same as mentioned. I rarely fire it and forgot that design feature last week. When I pushed a round by hand into the chamber. I have a FN Mauser made around mid 1950s. I had a gunsmith cut the extractor so it will chamber a round pushed straight into chamber by hand and not need to be picked up in the magazine first.

 

[instructor]

The Mauser Model 98 is indeed a controlled round feed system and primary reason for manufacturing as such was for reliability in a rifle going to battle, war. A German soldier was not always shooting his rifle from an upright position but often times hunkered down in a "fox hole," or bunker which had been bombed and full of rubble, timbers, etc., etc. The 98 system will permit you to strip a round from the magazine holding the
rifle upside down and feed the round into the chamber. Most secure system ever invented.