I've ran into something I've never experienced before with any rifle in the Ruger Hawkeye 6.5 Creedmoor I've mentioned on here before. After about thirty five rounds of absolutely no problems, very accurate, loaded fine with New Lapua brass I had a round not chamber. Thought that was odd so I tried several rounds and none chambered. I came in the house, grabbed a piece of fired brass would not chamber, grabbed a new piece of brass would not chamber, full length resized new brass still would not chamber. Cleaned the rifle with Boretech carbon eliminator still nothing will chamber. Grabbed my bore scope and looked in the chamber and all I can see that might be the problem is a tiny blip, a pimple if you will, looks like carbon, rounded over right at the end of the chamber before the beginning of the throat. Very hard to get my bore scope to focus well right there, but I cannot see anything else. Any suggestions on cleaning a chamber? Is it possible there's a slight burr there that collected the carbon and will that wear down or should I have Ruger look at this if I get it clean and can see somethere there?
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Are you feeding them from the magazine? Some Hawkeyes wont let you single feed, the extractor wont slip over the rim.
Am I that big an idiot? I had no idea you had to chamber them from the magazine. Come to think of it when I was first shooting it i was putting three in the magazine and today I did try to single feed every round today. Just put a round in the magazine and it fed and chambered perfectly. Unbelievable, but thanks a million.
Not weird. Just like most every Mauser derivative CRF action. You must only be used to PF actions.
It's just a true controlled round feed. The cartridge needs to be controlled from the mag. Lots of the new CRF actions work as controlled and push feed. I like that better... in case you need to drop a round in- but I don't think that they grab the round as secure.
I agree with you.
The Mauser CRF type action pretty much put the cartridge in a head lock compared to my nucleus.
I’d still prefer the single feed ability though.
Also, not all ruger hawkeys do this. My friend has the 6.5cm target rifle and it only functions as crf. I have the Ruger LRT and it CRF from the mag or I can single feed it. Not sure if it is a tolerance issue or if they have two different bolt designs.
I remember seeing the ads now, controlled round feed. I’ve never owned a Mauser action, and it’s been 30 years since I had a 77. All 700’s, savages and custom which all feed single. Mountain out of a mole hill
You can probably force the extractor over the rim but it’ll eventually break. Supposed to be dead from the mag.
