I have a '79 Marlin 1895 that I cannot seem to get to feed smoothly. Three different cast projectiles at various lengths with no success.
What it does:
When the cartridge is moving forward, it stops at about the point where the rim reaches the front of the wide part of the ejection port. I tried to put a picture of this stopping point in a link, but it may not show.
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It appears the case head is not sliding up the bolt face like it should.
The rim stops at the bottom edge of the extractor and will not slide under the claw or spring the extractor to the side so that the rim can continue up the bolt face.
If you double stroke the lever, the elevator will move the cartridge up enough that when the bolt face comes forward again the rim is high enough to be in front of the extractor. The cartridge is then moved forward by the extractor which will snap over the rim as the bolt closed completely.
I do not want to get too far into the weeds but, the other thing that I thought of is that maybe the barrel ramp may be too sharp on the bottom??? Maybe it needs a tiny radius just to break the sharp edge? I hesitate to go there.
Surely it has not been hard to cycle for it's whole life. On the other hand, maybe that is why I have it instead of the previous owners.
Any ideas???