Clipping
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:28 am
I was at the range last week with a new bolt gun. I had some factory 250 FTX and was sighting in. After the fourth shot the bolt would not close on a loaded round. I ejected the round, pulled out the bolt and a half moon shaped sliver of copper fell out on the benchtop. I gave the chamber a visual check then proceeded to shoot another five or six rounds and it happened again. I took a rod with a large patch and spun it around in the lug race and it had several pieces stuck on it. Once it was cleared I shot some 250TTSX handloads (made to book specs) and more of the same problems. I did not even notice the embossments in the cases until I got home and put the brass in the tumbler. These cases fed and extracted normally, but obviously there was debris in the chamber I did not see or feel during the shot string. Rifle was a new Bergara B-14 HMR 20". I picked up a new Bohman Arms a couple days later and after the scope was mounted I did my new gun pre range ritual of cleaning and inspecting everything. After I jagged the barrel I spun a patch in the lug race and when I pulled it out there was another crescent shaped piece of copper stuck in the patch. The gun was test fired by Bohman with 250 FTX and I have not shot it yet. Has anyone else ever run into this phenomenon?