Reaming chamber

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can a chamber be touched up with a reamer. If having issues with hard extraction. How would you know if chamber was tight enough to do this. Also who in vernon/salmon arm area could do this?
 
If standard rounds chamber easily, a tight chamber is unlikely.
Are there any marks on the extracted cases indicating a rough chamber?
 
there used to be but last trip to warranty center they did some polishing or so the ticket says. Problem being cases still won't extract. at the moment cases are Federal. I have tried a few Remington but while it is not as bad (just going by feel) still won't extract.
 
In all likelihood, running in a reamer is going to affect headspace. Setting the barrel back a bit and reaming should eliminate any chamber issues. However, it will also eliminate any warranty that might exist.
 
I am really getting fed up with this whole thing. The rifle is a great shooter but from day one has shown signs of having chamber/extraction issues. Has been back to warranty place twice. not impressed with them. plus they don't want to talk to customer so hard to get the point across.
 
If you are interested I have a number of posts on site which explain what has being going on but they are all over the place and I kind of ramble on.
 
If you like the rifle, and don't want to deal with the warranty depot anymore - just get it setback as tiriaq suggested. It sucks that savage hasn't made it right after the first trip in.
 
Are the cases getting stuck in the chamber or is it just hard to pull the bolt back?

I had the latter with my Shillen pre-fit, mine was just a case of needing a polishing but also had the barrel tightened for a "crush" fit, once the chamber was polished and barrel set to min headspace it extracts with no issues.

Perhaps your barrel was set too tight at the factory and needs to be backed off a hair?
 
headspace was reset first trip to warranty place. worked fine for a while then back to hard extraction. I am maybe going to send it back one more time and if they don't fix it look for new barrel. or maybe try the set back but that's an other cost with no sure results
 
If you want, send me some fired cases and I'll check them in my case gauge, maybe the chamber is out of round...?
 
Hard extraction after firing is usually too hot of a load... if it has been checked and the headspace set... try some factory rounds. If they extract hard then you have a rifle problem. If they extract fine I suspect a reloading problem.
 
guntech said:
Hard extraction after firing is usually too hot of a load... if it has been checked and the headspace set... try some factory rounds. If they extract hard then you have a rifle problem. If they extract fine I suspect a reloading problem.
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It is factory Federal American Eagle 150grain FMJ BT. to me it is either a chamber problem or some have said primary extraction issue. I have tried the feeler gauge thing but that works but takes at least .050 feller gauge seems excessive?
 
wce323078 said:
It is factory Federal American Eagle 150grain FMJ BT. to me it is either a chamber problem or some have said primary extraction issue. I have tried the feeler gauge thing but that works but takes at least .050 feller gauge seems excessive?
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I am working off some faded memories of a couple of my buds' guns that they were talking about, but are you not supposed to be using a 4 thousandths of an inch feeler for setting headspace when the barrel gets swapped off? Or are we talking about some other use of a feeler gage?

Really, in any case, the answer is to first MEASURE the cases and the chamber (a chamber cast), not guess at the issue, then compare those measurements to whichever of the MANY chamber dimensions that may have been used, and see where you sit. Once that has been done, then you know where to aim your efforts.

Cheers
Trev
 
If it is sticking with factory ammo, my suspicion would be that the body or neck portion of the chamber is bulged slightly. As Tiriaq has said, you would have to set the barrel back and adjust the chamber accordingly

cheers mooncoon
 
wce323078 said:
It is factory Federal American Eagle 150grain FMJ BT. to me it is either a chamber problem or some have said primary extraction issue. I have tried the feeler gauge thing but that works but takes at least .050 feller gauge seems excessive?
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Over the years I have experienced a few factory rifles that had problems with a specific lot of ammo. In a couple of instances it was the factory ammo loaded pretty hot... in others a very short throat... throating slightly longer helped that. I also have seen factory chambers that seemed out of spec and running a chambering reamer in fixed that... At no time was there any problem chambering and extraction the factory round if you didn't fire it.

I suggest you take your ammo and rifle to a competent smith and have it inspected and find out what the problem really is.
 
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