Re: New old guy in town.
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:17 pm
Thanks for the welcome.
I was having issues with the magazine tube. When the rifle was warmed up it was absolutely impossible to pull the mag tube. I was shooting some cast reloads this morning and it kept getting worse. I farted around with trying different combos of looser screws and apparently got the set screw for the outer tube too loose and the tube started walking out under recoil. I farted around with it some more at the shooting bench but I didn't really have the tools and walked back up to the house and started looking on line. I disassembled the forearm, and tube and cleaned up a small burr at the set screw hole in the outer tube. It's all back together now but I'll have to shoot it to make sure I've solved it. Way too hot to go back out this afternoon. I'll update when I've had a chance to test it.
On the bright side I was getting decent (but not great!) groups out of the load I was testing.
I was having issues with the magazine tube. When the rifle was warmed up it was absolutely impossible to pull the mag tube. I was shooting some cast reloads this morning and it kept getting worse. I farted around with trying different combos of looser screws and apparently got the set screw for the outer tube too loose and the tube started walking out under recoil. I farted around with it some more at the shooting bench but I didn't really have the tools and walked back up to the house and started looking on line. I disassembled the forearm, and tube and cleaned up a small burr at the set screw hole in the outer tube. It's all back together now but I'll have to shoot it to make sure I've solved it. Way too hot to go back out this afternoon. I'll update when I've had a chance to test it.
On the bright side I was getting decent (but not great!) groups out of the load I was testing.