Midland 22-250 cycling issues

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Hi guys. I bought a Midland 22-250 in January and have had some issues with the gun cycling. On a couple of occasions, after I had jacked out the spent shell casing and was pushing the bolt ahead with a new round , the extractor wouldn't grab the casing on the new round. As I tried to push the round forward into the chamber, the extractor didn't seem to be seated on the shell casing and I couldn't lock up the bolt tightly. In other words, the round was in the chamber o.k., but the bolt wouldn't lock up. I'm not a rifle guy at all...more into shotguns and bird hunting so I don't know what to think or what to do. Is my extractor screwed up or is this common with Midland bolt-action rifles?

Jon in New Brunswick
 
Are you feeding the cartridge by hand into the action or are you pushing it into the magazine well before trying to close the bolt? With your rifle the cartridge needs to be fed from the magazine in order for the cartridge to chamber and bolt to engage the case rim.
 
It sounds like maybe the magazine follower might be hanging up somewhere on the 4th round, not keeping the follower straight and allowing the cartridge to pop out of the magazine. Try a bit of lube to see if it'll help keep the follower level or if you can see where it is hanging up your Dremel tool might be able to fix that quick enough, if that is the problem anyways.
 
I assume your rifle is built on a Mauser 98 action. Be sure the cartridges are seated to the very rear of the magazine, this will allow the cartridge rims to slip in between the bolt face and the extractor before they climb up on the feed ramp. If the problem persists, pull the bolt out of the rifle and confirm there is enough room for the cartridge rims to slip past the extractor without hanging up. If there is resistance to the rim slipping past the extractor, the extractor needs to be modified. If you try to modify it yourself, you might win, but be prepared to buy a new extractor.
 
Boomer,
The Midland action was built to match a bunch or surplus '03 bolts P-H got ahold of and was intended to provide a cheap alternative to the (drying at the time) offering of the Santa-Barbara actions. It's considered as being an "hybrid" M/98 action. Numrich have / had bought the remains of unfinished, in the white actions castings and it was / is going for much less that 50.00 $... Lots of feeding issues with thses rifles.
 
Old meat-in-the-pot is a retired Midland .30-06 that I bought waay back when my wife and I were young. I've run all kinds of factory and handloads in this economical clunker and mine always fed fine. The stock design sucks but it has still accounted for many moose, deer, bear and coyotes. A very accurate, reliable old rifle that kicks like a mule :)
 
BC Bigbore said:
Old meat-in-the-pot is a retired Midland .30-06 that I bought waay back when my wife and I were young. I've run all kinds of factory and handloads in this economical clunker and mine always fed fine. The stock design sucks but it has still accounted for many moose, deer, bear and coyotes. A very accurate, reliable old rifle that kicks like a mule :)
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I've enjoyed my Midland '06 so far too. Recoil isn't pleasant but it shoots plenty straight enough. However mine does not like feeding the first shot from the mag as there is alot of pressure on it. So the fix is simple, I only load four in there. I'd like to say I only require one shot, but.....


:redface:
 
Come to think of it, I always loaded four in the mag, slid the bolt partially over the rounds then dropped one in the pipe. Craming five in the mag and trying to chamber one was always difficult so I never did it that way.
 
22-250 what's it worth with cycling issues?

Thanks guys for everyone's input. Does anyone have an idea what this rifle would be worth, considering the fact that it has cycling issues? It has nice wood and overall is in pretty nice shape with a few marks and dings on the stock. I may just sell it and start over.

Jon
 
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