Excess headspace...and then there's this!

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Bought a used rifle recently. Asked my usual 36 questions, all seemed good. Seller had fired the rifle, reported no issues. Seller included some 1xf brass.

Got the rifle and saw the 1xf brass and...yeah. Glad I asked for the brass, otherwise I'd have taken it out for a test shoot and been unpleasantly surprised (or worse). The rifle is going back to the original owner. Be careful gunnies, you never know what you're going to get.

Anyone want to take a guess at what the h-e-double hockey sticks happened here? The case on left is new, case on right is 1xf in this rifle. Looks like someone was trying to change calibres and said "eff it" halfway through reaming. Every brass case was blown out like this one, and all had multiple cracks around the mouth and shoulder area. Yikes!

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By any chance do you have a .25-06 case lying around? Or a .30-06 case that you can neck-size to 6.5mm? If you do & can, see if that would chamber. Can you do a chamber cast? It looks like a 6.5x55 that has been re-chambered to 6.5-06 A-Square. Compare the measurement of the 6.5x55 case [2.165"] to the measurement of the 6.5-06 at the shoulder / neck junction [2.176"]. Even if they did that, the bottom of the chamber is going to be at least 0.010" oversize.
 

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Gatehouse said:
Apart from being 90% sure it's been rechambered to a 6.5-06 and the barrel not restamped, what I find the most interesting is that some dude was shooting 6.5x55 out of it and never thought the brass that came out of it looked funny! :)

It probably has good carbon build up in the neck area of the chamber.
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I wonder how much 1f brass it came with...
 
jamesharrison said:
By any chance do you have a .25-06 case lying around? Or a .30-06 case that you can neck-size to 6.5mm? If you do & can, see if that would chamber. Can you do a chamber cast? It looks like a 6.5x55 that has been re-chambered to 6.5-06 A-Square. Compare the measurement of the 6.5x55 case [2.165"] to the measurement of the 6.5-06 at the shoulder / neck junction [2.176"]. Even if they did that, the bottom of the chamber is going to be at least 0.010" oversize.
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Unfortunately I don't have either case handy. I've heard many great things about 6.5-06 and know of a long range shooter up in the Soo who won a competition with that wildcat...and for a SPLIT second I considered keeping this thing and getting dies....but I've had enough surprises today! =)
 
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Thats past head-space problems and right into rechambered and not marked land.
I’m guessing some variant of a Mauser? Something had to hold it enough for the firing pin to reach. Send it back or get a chamber cast done and up your wild-catter cred.
Lemons into lemonade.
 
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