416 calibre choice? ***now a feeding issue post 20***

RatFink said:
I'd be leery in dealing with them - my brother's gunsite scout had a safety issue where you could have it on position 2 (lock the trigger out, but still cycle the bolt) and if you cycled the bolt, it would slide the safety into the fire position. Rifle went back and forth across the country twice, over the span of 10 months and eventually they gave up and the gun was shipped to Ruger for a replacement.
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Slamfire said:
Hence why I'm inclined to DIY if possible.
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Absolutely what I would do to if possible.

There are multiple horror stories on CGN of Snapshots warranty service, including my own. Avoid if you can! :)
 
Just got off the phone...Paul Barrette from snapshots has requested I ship the complete rifle to him.
He says he has seen this problem before and wants to check a few things out. He said very possibly it's a receiver milling issue and the gun will be replaced.
He was very pleasant to talk to and said the feeding issue is totally unacceptable especially on a dangerous game rifle.
Now I'm waiting to get my prepaid shipping labels.
Hopefully I won't have issues like others have indicated with Snapshots!
 
hawk-i said:
Just got off the phone...Paul Barrette from snapshots has requested I ship the complete rifle to him.
He says he has seen this problem before and wants to check a few things out. He said very possibly it's a receiver milling issue and the gun will be replaced.
He was very pleasant to talk to and said the feeding issue is totally unacceptable especially on a dangerous game rifle.
Now I'm waiting to get my prepaid shipping labels.
Hopefully I won't have issues like others have indicated with Snapshots!
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Good luck hope it all works out well! :)
 
Slamfire said:
If they could expedite the return of your repaired rifle that would be good. Seems it's going to be a late start to Spring Bear season this year. Winter sure is slow to leave.
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Yeah....I've got over 2 feet of snow on my lawn still...hopefully will have it back in time but if not I will use my Kimber Montana 280AI I bought as my Xmas present from me to me. ..lol
 
Received the expedited prepaid labels...the gun has been shipped!
Now to wait for the outcome.
 
hawk-i said:
Took the rifle out yesterday. ..I like the way it handles and shoots but it feeds terribly.
Unless I ram the bolt closed hard it has probably a 30% jam rate with Hornady 400 gr DGX ammo. The ammo will feed to high to the left and jam the bullet into back of the barrel instead of into the chamber but only when feeding from the right side of the mag. Feeding from the left side of the mag is good.
As it stands now I would not want to take this rifle hunting for anything that would be considered dangerous game!
Anyone else have this problem?
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A friend of mine was telling me the same story.

He sent the .416 back to Ruger 3 times and they never fixed the problem.

He has the exact same rifle in (I think .375) and he loaded the .375 dummy cartridges into his .416 by mistake. He noticed that he had no feeding problems and when he disassembled both rifles noticed that the mag boxes were the same.

He began loading his .416 with spritzer type bullets rather than round nose and 90% of his problems went away.

His conclusion is that Ruger cheaped out and did not build a .416 specific rifle, just merely re-barreled into the larger cartridge.
 
I scored a good one. No feed issues. :d

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remington jim said:
His conclusion is that Ruger cheaped out and did not build a .416 specific rifle, just merely re-barreled into the larger cartridge.

Of course they DID ! Thats JUST the way RUGER rolls ! :kickInTheNuts: RJ
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B... S... no more than any of the others... R&D and engineering cuts deeply into profit, so none of the companies want to reinvent the wheel... why do you think they are all coming out with plastic lowend crap? Better profit margins, like it or not, it is in all of our interest that they sell cheap guns and remain profitable... the more people that own and shoot firearms of all sorts the better... in the end votes matter more than heritage... increasingly so.
 
Just an update....talked with Snapshot yesterday, they feel it may be a mag box issue so they are going to try that first.
Parts from Ruger will take appx 4 weeks to get to them...this may or may not be the problem.
 
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