Sticky Bolt

[Fire Dog]

This is from Alex Wheeler’s site, watch the video about “Clickers” & “Does your die fit your chamber”
Your problem explained clearly…

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[SKWERLZ]

This is from Alex Wheeler’s site, watch the video about “Clickers” & “Does your die fit your chamber”
Your problem explained clearly…

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Those minimum spec reamers are a maximum spec pain in the butt.

 

[bsekf]

I use a collet die and the cases were annealed 2 reloads ago. A bullet will drop into a fired case. A reload goes into the chamber with no resistance. I will use a Redding body die when they start to go in harder.

Going to run them into a 444 marlin die, closest thing I have to a small base die, and then try Fred's suggestion ( .002 between bolt handle and rear baffle). Load is shooting 3/4 inch at 200 yards, so I hate to mess with it. Primers: are CCI BR 4 softer/harder than CCI 400's?

Watched the Wheeler video and now see how and what to measure.

 

[DLT]

His problem doesn’t sound like a clicker problem to me. Well none of my clickers ever had any problem needing the bolt to be bumped back. Sounds like a primary extraction problem which some savages have. Thin shim added to the baffle between it and the action should work wonders

 

[Jason D Hostetter]

Check the distance between the rear bolt baffle and the rear action face, you can use feeler gauges, if you can fit more than .020" in the gap, the actual bolt body needs to be cut at the back. Any gunsmith or person that can run an end mill correctly, can do this. You typically have to remove .010-.020" to tighten it back up. This is how you adjust the primary extraction on a Savage. If you want to test it, before doing it, next time you shoot, before you open the bolt, stick an old credit card or something similar, possibly even a dime, if the gap is big enough, between the rear of the action and the baffle, then lift the bolt. If it lifts and pops the case out, as it should. Now you know what to do.

 

[bsekf]

Thanks to everybody! Problem is solved, .2 above the rim needed to be sized. I am going to run all these warm hunting loads through the FLS die rather than the collet die.

 

[divingin]

To size the base, yes. I "think" a regular 308 based die could be used for a body die? I have never tried it as I haven't had the need.

Should work, as you can screw the die down further on the 6BR without moving the shoulder as would happen on 308.