Winchester Power Max... carefull.

caramel

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Was trying the action on my Nemesis and had available all the 308 ammo i own, i was loading the mags and operating the bolt with the ammo to see if there was some that would be sticky, everything went well until i loaded the Power max, the bolt would not close on the rifle, so took of the barrel and one at the time tried the in the open end of the barrel, none of them enter fully, they was 1/16 of an inch left outside the chamber, giving the Nemesis chamber is very thight, even the cheap MFS close the bolt silky smooth, in a hunting rifle this maybe not an issue but here it was, out of 60 rounds of PM not a single one permit the bolt to close, every other ammo i tried made it with flying color... JP.:cool:
 
Did not take long for them to react, received a phone call from a representative asking me to packeged the 3 boxes i have and they will send a courrier pick them up early next week... Hum... It feel like compensation time... JP.
 
keep us posted on how it turns out,

i would measure some COAL right now as i had a box of powermax .308 but me and Cote_br shot it through his mauser the other day.
 
Interesting; a friend came by today and had 2 rds. of 30-06 Power Max that wouldn't chamber as well, turns out the brass was 55 thou too long. We just pulled the bullet, trimmed the brass, neck-sized it, and put it back together. Then it chambered just fine. Great quality control.
 
Interesting. Ive shot about 5 boxes over the pat 2 years in .308, with about another 4 boxes between some acquaintances in various calibers. None of us have experienced any issues.

I personally love them. Shoot extremely accurate out of my gun, work well on deer and moose.
 
Yeah like .Ben, said, we took my Isreali Mauser out last weekend and fired off a box of power max with no problem. Fed, fired and extracted just fine. I guess the tolerances on this rifle are alot more forgiving than a precision rifle.
 
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