I have a great Sako Quad with a Rock barrel that was chambered and installed by Neil Waltz. Has all the DIP stuff and sits in a McMill A5. It is a one hole tac driver! The problem is its pretty much a single shot. I can only load a few rounds in either my 5 or 10 round mags. Load any mag beyond halfway and the bullets go crushing into the chamber if they dont get caught below.
Is anyone running a Quad without mag feeding issues? What the trick to getting the factory $$$ mags to run?
What caliber are you talking about? From what I've read, people rarely have problems with 5-rounders in .22LR - the problems seem to mushroom when trying to load more than 7 (seven) rounds in the 10-rounders. Since you mentioned you're having problems with both 5-round and 10-round mags (so I surmise .22LR), maybe your chamber is a little too tight. The "Bentz" is a very popular .22LR chamber and is a little tight too, but other than having very bad luck with magazines it sounds like something else may be going on with your Quad.
Part of the problem is that the Quad is designed to accommodate four (4) different calibers using a single magazine design, and as such there's no feed ramp to help chamber the slightly blunt noses of .22 RF cartridges, resulting in gouging of the projectile on the edge of the chamber on non-factory barrels (factory Quad .22LR barrels have a bevel on the barrel to help feed the .22LR). Despite my knowledge of the Quad's issues when feeding .22LR into custom barrels, I acquired a like new
euroOptic Sako Quad Special Edition (with .22LR Lilja barrel) last year. I'd never owned a Quad with a factory barrel, nor one with a .22LR Lilja barrel with a Bentz chamber, and wanted more info on how much I should bevel the chamber so PM'ed "
Kiba/
KibaSH here and asked for his advice (I'd read
Kiba's reply to someone who was having feeding issues with his .22LR Quad, and
Kiba had posted a photo of the bevel he performed to the breech of a custom .22LR Quad barrel).
Obviously, you don't want to remove too much material at the breech, lest you encourage a case rupture due to an un-supported case. As I didn't want to remove too much metal at a time (
you can take metal away but you can't put it back), it took me several tries to get the bevel just right. This was a PITA, because I have to remove the scope every time I pull the barrel, but I didn't want to ruin a $500.00 barrel by rushing it. Below is a photo of the finished bevel I performed on my Lilja .22LR Lilja barrel. I used a small, very fine Cratex cone to bevel the breech between 8 and 4 'O Clock, then polished it a bit with
Flitz. The reflection makes the bevel appear deeper than it is, which is about .015". I have 10 (ten) .22LR Quad mags - seven (7) 10-rounders and three (3) 5-rounders, and loaded to capacity, all of them feed very smoothly without gouging the projectile and/or hanging-up a round. I haven't used any of my 5-rounders since I beveled the breech, and I actually traded two of my 5-rounders for 10-rounders.
Bevel on the breech of my .22LR Lilja Sako Quad barrel:
Keith
