Bolt ejector smearing/marking up brass?

[antelopedundee]

I have seen several "plunger" style ejectors stick in their bore. If the rifle is a Remington it is real typical to find carbide blasting media in the bore. They just don't do a very good job of cleaning things up at Remington these days. The bore it sets in is a pretty close fit, so, as posted previously, there are several things that can make it stick. Unburned powder, carbon, slivers of brass, old sticky lube...
I always break it down and clean everything real good, solvent and compressed air. I also always polish the ejector face and if needed give it a slight radius. There used to be an old saying or standby thing about clipping 3 {???} coils off the ejector spring. The idea was that it was too strong from the factory and clipping the coils off made it so it wouldn't shove the case to one side of the chamber. I don't know if that did much. I do believe that the ejector spring on many rifles is too strong, but I don't know if you should {or even can} be able to push it flat with your fingernail??? Seems like that might be tough to do with a recessed bolt face. Don't get me wrong, it only needs to get the case to clear the receiver and thumb pressure would probably do it fine...I just haven't seen the facotry rifle with a plunger style ejector that was that easy.

I've got a number of Rem 700s and have never had an ejector stick.

 

[msinc]

I've got a number of Rem 700s and have never had an ejector stick.

Yes sir, they certainly don't all do it. In fact, there was a period of time {the last 5 or 6 years} that I haven't seen one. I probably tore down and cleaned a good half dozen or so over the years prior to that. I also used to see some really dirty bores on brand new rifles. I don't know what that was, but it was difficult to clean.
In fact, it's funny this came up...I just lucked onto a Model Seven that had the ejector sticking. It was not only full of grit, it also had a bad burr. The older ones had a slight radius or at least a little curved edge and this one was dead flat. I gave the edge a little break and polished the face. A new barrel and glass bedding and this rifle is ready to test fire...of course it is raining!!!
The most recent Remington problem I have been seeing is a bevel around the firing pin hole on the bolt face. I have seen this so bad that brass flowed into the bevel upon firing and the primers had a cratered appearance.