Dlask 12,5 barrel too tight?

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Some time ago I purchased a dlask 12,5 10/22 barrel from a sponsor. Did not get the time to go out and try it on until tonight. I got a few rounds off then started to get quite a few FTF. Cycled a fresh mag in and to my surprise, smoke, a really loud sound and an odd smell. Looked down to fing a twisted and split open casing. Upon inspection from me and a few fellow shooters we found out that it was an out of battery fire and that the barrel would not let the round into the chamber completely. The case would stick out about 1/4'' and would need a stong push to fully chamber. I made sure that there was no debris in the chamber and that all was clean and sure enough everything looks fine.

Anyone else had this happen?

What can I do? Should I just arrange to exchange it?
 
skip1600 said:
What type of ammo. Dlask barrels with the extreme chamber specificly will not function on cci ammo
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extreme chamber?

i dont understand what that is?

i have 2 Dlask barrels that i just recently put on and now you have me worried!

i havnt cycled any CCI in them yet but i picked some up and was gonna try it out this weekend.
now ya have me worried if i should!

are we talking just the normal Dlask 8.5/12/18.5 barrels or is there a different one that your talking about?
 
wayupnorth said:
extreme chamber?

i dont understand what that is?

are we talking just the normal Dlask 8.5/12/18.5 barrels or is there a different one that your talking about?
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Dlask makes the various length barrels in either a sporter chamber or extreme chamber.

The sporter chamber would be a typical sloppy chamber which is made with feeding and cycling reliably as it's priority.

The extreme chamber is more of a match chamber(to a limited degree on a semi) that is made with tighter tolerances, and the priority given to accuracy.
 
Ammo was cci blazer.

Upon closer look my barrel indeed has the extreme chamber.

What can I do now? Switching ammo is not really my solution as I have a ''few'' thousands and it shoots very well in everything else I've got. Not really looking foward to buying anything else over what I consider a decade supply.

Should I have it reamed?

Could I SLOWLY and CAREFULLY put some jewellers rouge on a bore swab and try to open it up a little?

Would that be sacriledge?
 
You would have to make the chamber longer as well not just fatter. As it is now it pushed the bullet into the rifling. That is the reason accuracy is so good. Dlask says they dont recommend the use of cci ammo but if that is what you want to use they can use a different chamber.
 
I would probably sell the barrel as I can't see the retailer taking it back after its been fired and then buy one with a sport chamber... Or just buy some Remington or federal ammo (Winchester can be picky in them) and use it only in the 10/22
 
Yeah it looks like you'll either have to find ammo that works with your barrel, or trade/sell this one for a sporter.. based on what people have said in threads around the forum. I'm looking into the 12.5" too :D
 
Just heard back from Dlask, they can ream it out for 20$ and one week turnaround, guess that's the route I'll go!
 
Accuracy will likely drop off slightly though.........

Why not just stock up on more ammo, or trade some of what you have?

Different guns like different ammo, and I have a stock of both CCI SV, and Federal Blue Box to satisfy the different guns I have.
 
I was going to suggest sending it to Joe... He looks after his products... The sporter chamber will function well with CCI ammo but it won't be as accurate as the X-Treme chamber. The key in the sporter is to use bulkier CCI ammo... Blazers and Mini-Mags shoot really well in ours. We did get our X-treme chamber running with CCI SV's, but we worked them over good into the leade... And after two full bricks they began to function very well when the action is properly clean and dry.
 
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