My opinion is that a rifle that is mostly for the bench is nice if you can just drop a round in and close the action. I also like to check neck sized cases in their chamber before I add components. This is easier with push feed rifles. I also like to chamber hunting rounds for function before I actually hunt with them, even if I use factory ammo. This maybe a bit of overkill but it's cheap insurance. Loaded cartridges are easy to check in either type of action, it's just the empty brass that's tougher in CRF rifles.
Push feed vs controlled feed
- Thread starter Victor Simon
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My opinion is that a rifle that is mostly for the bench is nice if you can just drop a round in and close the action. I also like to check neck sized cases in their chamber before I add components. This is easier with push feed rifles. I also like to chamber hunting rounds for function before I actually hunt with them, even if I use factory ammo. This maybe a bit of overkill but it's cheap insurance. Loaded cartridges are easy to check in either type of action, it's just the empty brass that's tougher in CRF rifles.
duncansuds
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I had to go look for myself. I can’t believe I never really noticed. It doesn’t hold on all the way back. It’s more of a controlled push feed.
I guess my method has been to put the case pretty well into the chamber with the push feed. Then just close it up. The CRF rifle needs to have the case placed under the extractor and guided into the chamber. Just seems more fiddling to me, but everybody is different.
If by single load you mean putting a cartridge in the magazine and then closing the bolt my rifle is fine. But checking an empty sized case for chamber fit seems to hang up before reaching the chamber, so I normally guide the empty in. Maybe the extractor is not tight to the case head?
It happens sometimes.re
Good thing too, my cz 550 magazine would let the rounds go ahead of the extractor so it was a push feed anyway. So if the ectractor cutout is made so there is room to pop over the rim when the round is chamber it can also pop off it with a stuck round negating the supposed super strong extraction of the crf does it not0
Exactly. If they don’t, a tiny bit of polishing or worst case extending the bevel will take care if it. There’s no excuse for one that doesn’t work.
Having said that, if you are faced with a CRF rifle that stalled out in mid-jump; pretend you’re playing air guitar and use the middle two fingers of your left hand to compress the rear leg of the extractor and close the bolt. This also works on rifles that will jump the rim that are owned by people that think tbey shouldnt.
pete dobinson
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- Courtenay BC.
The claw extractor will pop over when chambering but will not pop over during extraction.
I prefer crf..... But that's because the Ruger m77 platform is my fave rifle..... And it's crf....
If dropping a round in the chamber and feeding it push style is a priority for you, then go push feed......
There are so many other reasons to like or dislike a rifle.......
If dropping a round in the chamber and feeding it push style is a priority for you, then go push feed......
There are so many other reasons to like or dislike a rifle.......
If it will not close on a chambered round it just need some tweaking.You should be able to close it on a chambered round with ease .
Rockmcdock
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- Calgary, AB
I prefer CRF, and especially in the new Model 70s, which in my experience are a very high quality production rifle. Closing them on a chambered round has never been a problem for me. What I love most is that when a fired cartridge gets a little tight in the chamber after expansion, and I have to exert some some force to get it out, I have justified confidence in the extractor to firmly grab the rim with virtually no chance of breakage. I can confidently pull HARD on the cartridge, and it is going to come out.
