I finally finished reaming a short chamber replacement barrel for a Argentina mauser converting it to 308 Winchester this Sunday past . All week I looked forward to running a few rounds through it with jackets on them - this weakened to get it on target & try it out .
Sadly my entire day was a miserable failure after the first 2 shots at 50 yards just getting it on paper went rather smoothly . The third shot was to be the first shot at a 100 yards off the bench when I squeezed the trigger I heard a click not a bang . I cocked it again a few times trying to fire the cartridge before giving up and just ejecting the round to take a look at the primer ( it was a good firing pin strike ) so it should have fired , but the next 2 rounds did the same thing click & click , now I'm concerned . So I spent the rest of the day taking apart the bolt over and over trying everything I could to figure out what was going on - only getting the next 2 out of three rounds to fire .
I guess tomorrow I'm going to pull down a few rounds and try new primers in them but , here is a little information on my project so if you have any ideas please share them .
I full length resized a box of Winchester once fired brass trimmed , and cleaned the primer pocket .
Loaded 5 rounds with various charges in groups of 5 to get a idea of what to expect out of my new barrel .
I chose to use Winchester lg rifle primers I have that I use for my cast 30-30 loads with out any trouble in the past . I used my hand primer to seat the primers , the same way I have for years .
The rifle was a 765 x 53 sold through Interarms that I have put at least a 100 rounds through before taking the barrel off to rebarrel in 308 Winchester . Without a problem so the rifle has no history of firing problems .
I put in a Timmy trigger without the safety - using the safety on the bolt , but I used the Timmy trigger on the rifle with the previous barrel .
The firing pin seams to be fine , I have striped the bolt down several times its clean and well oiled all seams good , except for the rifle not firing .
So I think tomorrow I'm going to start out pulling down the rounds that didn't fire and reloading them with different primers .
Hopefully - any ideas would be appreciated but my battery is almost dead so I'm going to be offline for the night .