Great offer Happy :thumbsup:
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Great offer Happy :thumbsup:
Hey Happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy
Awsome offer cheers mate. How much you want for doing it? Also whats Mta? Much appreciated
Matamata.
No charge .. Just free help.. Plenty of it available from all the GCs on here .. Some day you,ll return the favour to some body else I m sure !! Mta = Matamata @possummattiQuote:
Originally Posted by possummatti
awesome thanks champ. I thought it would either be matamata or a company. If you pm me your address and ph number ill get in touch with you and sort something out. Once again thanks mate [emoji2] [emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy
So I have had this rifle since Saturday. Josh tells me hes only fired 9 rounds through it since owning it. Barrel was dirty but seen way worse.
I found that the two fired shells supplied (once fired factory ammo) with it got tight when the neck area entered the barrel.
So if you dropped the case in the hole it dropped in right up to the point where there was 5 to 8 mm that wouldn't go further unless you pushed the bolt real firmly.
Needless to say the bolt was hard to open needed a light hit with rubber hammer to open it and eject the case. Visual inspection couldn't really see anything.
Stripped it. Plugged the barrel pointing down in vise and filled it all the way to the top with Bore Tec and left for two days. Washed it and brass brushed the shit out of it.
Followed by just oil patches. Visually the barrel is now real clean. No improvement though. Cases hanging up exact same spot.
Plugged it again soaked for 2 days in Bore solvent G96. (This shit nearly knocks you out if you get a wiff of it. Probably similar to @Spook s or @Rushy s crusties)
Put the brass brush in cordless drill adater and wet brushed the top end. Solvent washed then problem still there. If will not take his two once fired cases.
I found one of mine out of 10 that fits ejects etc but only one ???? I then polished the case necks on our polisher to the extent I bent one of mine so applied plenty of pressure and polish and they still are tight in the bore.
The cases show a good firing pin hit, primers look fine no marks on their bottoms at all.
The rifle has a drop bottom magazine. The mag "box" has been brazed to the action by someone. Could this have damaged the bore?
Im stuck. After 9 rounds its gone pear shaped for young Josh.. Anyone got any ideas ????? I do not think its still dirty ??
Next would be to make a mandrel and wrap wet and dry sand paper round it and using a drill hit it again but I reckon that would ruin the rifle ?? (might make the hole too big) Take to gun smith ??
:X3: :nose bleed:
Is the chamber dirty? Sounds like lots of work on the bore/barrel but might be filthy prior to that?
No chamber has been soaked full to the top and used a 44 cal wire brush at that point. Cases drop in .Its not till the neck goes in that it gets tight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Its a 7-08 bwah ha ha!!
will a factory or fl sized reload chamber and extract?
If the fired brass has been stretched due to whatever it wont chamber nicely without being resized first, your brass may not either due to different chamber spec.
Now it is definitely clean time to try factory ammo, if it wont chamber and extract easily its off to the gunsmith I would say.
Mag box brazed to action sounds odd,Anyone know if this is how they are from the factory? If not this may have warped the action.
Cheers VC Ill bring some resized cases plus ammo from home to try in it tomorrow.. If they work Ill put a round through on the way home ... (No not out the window !!)Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
If it is we will never hear about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Hey VC ive tried 4 different brands of unfired ammo without firing them and it still does it.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
@Happy
I hugely appreciate all that you have done for me .Its obvious you've spent alot of time and effort working on it and i cant thank you enough. The world needs more good bastards like you.
Cheers Josh
Does it have a number on the bolt and if so does it match the number on the action?
I starting thinking bolt so it's soaking now in some solvent I ll check for a number in the morning . Polished the chamber with real fine wet and dry its shiny now but problem still there. I polished it wet with flowing coolant so it's not bigger just shinyQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Yes after 6.5x55 the best calibre in the world it's the second best .308Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
Never a truer word spoken or written :cool:
Isn't it multi purpose? Barefoot told me that any caliber or load would slip right in.[emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
17HMR might rattle down the barrel a bit and 50 cal might not fit in the chamber but other than that anything between .22 and 338 Lapua should be the go. Ha ha ha haQuote:
Originally Posted by possummatti
Perhaps it's time to do a chamber cast and see just what's going on.
Any chance of getting comments from previous owner?.
I was the previous owner. I bought it sight unseen off another forum member and I never saw it before on selling it onto @possummatti.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
It was originally meant to be the basis of the next forum rifle build. As that never got off the ground it was decided to sell it one to someone cheaply so that it would get used.
Now clearly no good deed goes unpunished :D
The previous owner to me has commented on this thread and said he never had a problem.
I have discussed the problem with possummatti and Happy and the result is he is getting a refund and Rushy is hoping to pick up the rifle on the Rushy/Gibo/Pengy road trip (thanks).
I will then either strip it for parts or throw it in the bin unless someone feels like a project.
Not your fault at all and the only reflection should be you did the right thing. Thanks Barefoot. The scope is not too bad so keep that !Quote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot
Good bugger BF :D
It must be an easy job for a gunsmith to take the barrel off and run a reamer into the chamber .
I realise that this is a budget exercise , but it seems a shame to just give up on it .
Anyone got a bore scope that could be put up the barrel to see if its shot out and in particular the throat and chamber to see if there is still an obstruction of fouling .
Cleaning a barrel is a topic that seems to get the juices flowing and the debates raging , but I recently witnessed a friend clean a newly purchased second hand 22.250 .
He did all his usual cleaning techniques and declared it clean . It didn't shoot great , but it was OK .
He got talked into buying some cleaner from the gun shop that is a foam that you spay down the bore , it expands , you leave it for a set time and clean it out . He was amazed what came out of that " clean barrel "
I didn't witness that actual cleaning , but I did see the improved results when he shot it next with the same ammo and everything .
It was quite an impressive demonstration of " how clean is your barrel " .
Hope you find an answer to the problem .
Ken
+1 good onya BF....:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
The foam stuff is good (and easy) to use. I swapped to it after see it on one of Norway's videos.
Im impressed with how you guys have sorted this out big ups for barefoot sorted like real gentlemen:thumbsup:
He's a bloody gc Marty. Wasn't anyone's fault just one of those things and now everyone's happy again. I think [emoji2]Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
Just a thought, do the older savage 110 actions run the same barrel nut setup? If so surely somone has a second hand savage tube that could go on the thing, a gunsmith or clever fella can swap out a savage barrel in about 20-30mins from what I understand.
The resale on the rifle is only $400ish so swapping a spare barrel on (unless it was free) isn't a cost efficient exercise. For instance I bought an unfired savage recently for $550, so it's just not worth spending money on this one.
Very true. They are a pretty good action, just thought somone might have an old '08 chambered barrel lying round from a build or something they will part ways with for cheap/free.
SO where is this $550 unfired savage supply? haha I want to build a bush rig......:D
Keep your eye on trademe. Sportways has been selling off their old display rifles and demo ones over the last few months ;)