30-30 bolt action
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I have had 3or4 of the little beggers over the years, none of them would feed pointed bullets.I just assumed it was the feed ramp.Prosper can you tell if yours has been altered a little,I don't think it would take much.
Rich
Rich
A friend here had a custom 3030 from Medwell and Perrett on a beautiful Mauser action. He couldnt handload for it as it had really tight tolerances, almost blueprint chambered for the Winchester ammo and his dies werent up to it. Nice but a £5k I could buy a lot of lever action for woodland deer in that calibre and still have change for a second hand truck. He paid £2k second hand but figures it was worth it. Apparently the owner lost his license or gave it up without shooting it once.
My bolt action, 30-30 caliber "CIL 830" also have problems with pointed bullets, especially the lenght of pointed bullets in short magazine forced pointed bullets to be seated deep, and especially when using the 180 grain pointed bullets, and thus reduces the space for powder. I would think that converting this bolt action 30-30 to a "improved" version of the 30-30 would solve some of this shortcomming, when using pointed bullet by increasing the powder capacity ? Or simply use the new and improved velocity, pointed bullet from Hornady ?
Gatehouse, it is the clip lips that need bending just a bit. We have 2 of these rifles and they take a bit of tinkering to get to feed smooth, but they will. I think you are going the right way with the 130g bullet. My wife's 325 Stevens has been using the 125g bullets for the past several years. We have been using Remington 125g psp and H335 with great results. Several whitetails and a few coyotes have fallen to this load. It is accurate past 250 yards.
snowshoe said:
I am not convinced it is the magazine that is the issue. The mouth of the case seems to jam into the outside of the chamber, as the chamber has a little "lip" around it.
It feeds factory ammo fine, so....
But plase tell me what you did for "bending" the lips, I'll check out how mine compares when I get home.Thanks..
One of my rifles did the same thing. I have one rifle set for hand loaded 150g psp rounds, and the other rifle is set up for the 125g bullets. Some other weight bullets I have used will not feed without a little tweeking to the clip. I bend the clip lips with a pair of pliers, and it only takes a very slight amount to make a difference. I have worked up the best load for each rifle and pretty much stick to that so I don't have to mess with clip.
Savage
This was my first centerfire rifle. My grand father gave it to me for my tenth b-day. Shot my first deer with it that year. This is now the family starter rifle (5 of my brothers kids have shot game with it). Since it has been in the family it has only had cast bullets running through it (155 gr), this has never failed for us.
This was my first centerfire rifle. My grand father gave it to me for my tenth b-day. Shot my first deer with it that year. This is now the family starter rifle (5 of my brothers kids have shot game with it). Since it has been in the family it has only had cast bullets running through it (155 gr), this has never failed for us.
