[racer88]

Send it!

 

[joeyvco]

I built a .300 WinMag, on a Remington 700, all
Weather SS long barrel platform. Damn thing looked awesome, but was hard to chamber at first. Cleaned the $hit outta it & took the bolt apart & it was packed with crap, so cleaned the $hit outta it also. Got it closing & opening ok, mounted my rings & bore sighted the scope, good to go. Went to the range & was impressed at 100 yds, my first shot was only a few inches off, I could only bore it at about 50’. Made corrections on scope, went to extract spent round & reload …. & that’s when it started! I couldn’t get the damn bolt open! While the feeling of everyone looking at my rifle saying “ that’s a nice setup “ was swiftly fleeting, I’m packing it up & heading home. Took it to my next door neighbor, who is a gunsmith & he checked it out & said “ that’s one of the zhittiest looking breaches I’ve ever seen! I can’t believe Remington would have let that leave the factory like that”! So, as Bob said, it was the breach that needed back reamed a touch. He did that & It is fine now. The bolt handle would move fine, till the very top, where it starts to pull back on the round & was a no go from there. I also am aware of what is happening as the bolt handle traverses through it’s journey of lockup to open now. Good luck, they will take care of it, if need be.

 

[Rick McC.]

Update:
Got off the phone late yesterday with a rep from Ruger.

After a brief conversation of the issues involved, it seems that the rifle is just new and tight.
Ruger offered that I could still return the rifle under warranty if I wasn't satisfied after the break-in period, (meaning I could shoot it), and didn't have any problems with Bob's suggestion to hit the chamber with some JB bore paste (which I have since acquired).

I have been cycling the action quite a bit and it does seem to be loosening up (a liittle).
You still have to be deliberate about chambering a round, but now failures are few and far between. (Also, this is after lubricating.)

That in itself is an interesting question:
I wonder how many folks here will lubricate their brand new gun/rifle purchase, prior to sending first rounds down range?

Anyway - I've decided I'm going to go ahead and take the new rifle out to the range (at my next opportunity), and see how she does
And keep open for now the option of returning it to Ruger for their evaluation.

I field strip and clean over 99% of the new guns that I buy before I shoot them, used ones too.

 

[7.62Kolectr]

Update:
Got off the phone late yesterday with a rep from Ruger.

After a brief conversation of the issues involved, it seems that the rifle is just new and tight.
Ruger offered that I could still return the rifle under warranty if I wasn't satisfied after the break-in period, (meaning I could shoot it), and didn't have any problems with Bob's suggestion to hit the chamber with some JB bore paste (which I have since acquired).

I have been cycling the action quite a bit and it does seem to be loosening up (a liittle).
You still have to be deliberate about chambering a round, but now failures are few and far between. (Also, this is after lubricating.)

That in itself is an interesting question:
I wonder how many folks here will lubricate their brand new gun/rifle purchase, prior to sending first rounds down range?

Anyway - I've decided I'm going to go ahead and take the new rifle out to the range (at my next opportunity), and see how she does
And keep open for now the option of returning it to Ruger for their evaluation.

I disassemble, inspect and lube every gun I get before shooting it.
Do you have any flitz? If not us the bore paste on the locking lugs on the bolt itself as well. It’ll smooth them up. Is there any ‘finish’ on the bolt lugs? Could also be the ‘sticky’ issue.

 

[Anduril]

I disassemble, inspect and lube every gun I get before shooting it.
Do you have any flitz? If not us the bore paste on the locking lugs on the bolt itself as well. It’ll smooth them up. Is there any ‘finish’ on the bolt lugs? Could also be the ‘sticky’ issue.

Yes.
Unlike Racer's bolt (I think?), mine has a black finish of some sort, including on the bolt face.
I recall that Racer's bolt was all silver-color?

 

[Anduril]

I disassemble and inspect any new gun I get, mostly to get familiar with it.
But, I can't say I've ever gone beyond the factory-applied lubrication for the first range session.

On the Tavor, I did engage in some immediately post-(first)-range session oiling -- but that was mostly trying to troubleshoot a totally unrelated problem.
That issue turned out to be crappy plastic magazines that would not feed right.
So, it probably did not need any lubrication.

But, now that it has been called to my attention - I think I will start disassembling / lubricating all newly acquired firearms.
Wait - I already have enough guns! Right?!

 

[7.62Kolectr]

Yes.
Unlike Racer's bolt (I think?), mine has a black finish of some sort, including on the bolt face.
I recall that Racer's bolt was all silver-color?

Polish the bolt lugs. My $1 says that right there will make a difference.

 

[racer88]

Yes.
Unlike Racer's bolt (I think?), mine has a black finish of some sort, including on the bolt face.
I recall that Racer's bolt was all silver-color?

Yes. Mine is polished steel.

 

[Anduril]

Update: Jan 2, 2023

I finally got this gun to the range (with Beerhunter and Caleb) to put "first rounds" through the weapon.
I'm happy to report zero problems using (3) different ammo brands, but mostly using S&B brand ammo.

The rifle still seems a little resistant to closing the bolt but its not noticeable unless you go about it rather gently.
Hopefully, the rifle will continue to break-in -- but "as-is" it did not give me any trouble at the range today, as evidenced by the 100-yard qualifying target below:

And I'm super happy with the Valdada Recon G2 FFP Mil/Mil scope on this rifle. (I have the same scope on my .338 Lapua.)
Spot on.

Although we bore-sighted it at 25 yards, (out of courtesy to the FWC range so as not to hit their baffles), I'm happy to report that the math worked out perfectly after the fact.
This scope is dead-on accurate, as advertised. (Granted, it's only 100 yards....)
The rifle is equipped with a 20 MOA rail, and a Spuhr SP-7602 one-piece 20.6 MOA 40mm rings (for a total of 11.8 MIL after conversion).
Once zeroed at 100 yards, I was able to confirm the turret range extents matched the homework !!

BTW, Qualification at FWC range is five shots at 100 yards, all within a three-inch circle.
You need to qualify (for each weapon serial number) before you can shoot at the longer 200 & 300 yards ranges, that have electronic scoring.

Was definitely a good day out with BeerHunter and Caleb.
The cost and availability of ammo notwithstanding, I hope we get plenty more opportunities to shoot in 2023!!

 

[racer88]

Update: Jan 2, 2023

I finally got this gun to the range (with Beerhunter and Caleb) to put "first rounds" through the weapon.
I'm happy to report zero problems using (3) different ammo brands, but mostly using S&B brand ammo.

The rifle still seems a little resistant to closing the bolt but its not noticeable unless you go about it rather gently.
Hopefully, the rifle will continue to break-in -- but "as-is" it did not give me any trouble at the range today, as evidenced by the 100-yard qualifying target below:

And I'm super happy with the Valdada Recon G2 FFP Mil/Mil scope on this rifle. (I have the same scope on my .338 Lapua.)
Spot on.

Although we bore-sighted it at 25 yards, (out of courtesy to the FWC range so as not to hit their baffles), I'm happy to report that the math worked out perfectly after the fact.
This scope is dead-on accurate, as advertised. (Granted, it's only 100 yards....)
The rifle is equipped with a 20 MOA rail, and a Spuhr SP-7602 one-piece 20.6 MOA 40mm rings (for a total of 11.8 MIL after conversion).
Once zeroed at 100 yards, I was able to confirm the turret range extents matched the homework !!

BTW, Qualification at FWC range is five shots at 100 yards, all within a three-inch circle.
You need to qualify (for each weapon serial number) before you can shoot at the longer 200 & 300 yards ranges, that have electronic scoring.

Was definitely a good day out with BeerHunter and Caleb.
The cost and availability of ammo notwithstanding, I hope we get plenty more opportunities to shoot in 2023!!


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Which ammo did you use to qualify?

 

[AFJuvat]

Nice shooting!

 

[Caleb]

It’s an RPR….. worked great. I believe the bolt will break in with more shooting, not a big deal. After seeing Anduril’s 100yd “zeroing” groups, I knew the qual target was going to be a cake walk. It was a great range day.


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[BeerHunter]

Which ammo did you use to qualify?

He used S&B ammo, link provided in post #49. Need to try some of that in my 6.5 CM rifle to see if it likes it, too.

 

[Anduril]

Which ammo did you use to qualify?

SB65E
Link: 6,5 CREEDMOOR – HPBT 142 GRS SB65E – Sellier & Bellot

I don't think it's "match grade", but for under 300 yards it may not matter that much. (?)
I picked up a couple cases because it was relatively cheap, and I was mostly interested in rifle break-in at the time of order.