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Looking for a quality gunsmith to sort out my .458 Lott. It performed perfectly for about two years and now it will only eject the spent brass about 50% of the time. Please email at hunt@kenmoody.com or post here. Thanks. | ||
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Paul Chapman at Griffin and Howe can take care of anything you need. G&H has been my sole 'smith since the early 1990s. Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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You don't state brand of rifle but I'm betting it's a Ruger? Pancho LTC, USA, RET "Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids." Clint Eastwood Give me Liberty or give me Corona. | |||
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Winchester M70 Safari Express. Reamed to Lott. | |||
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Dennis Olson - Plains, Montana. | |||
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Does the round stay in the chamber, or does it just stay in the claw extractor? Have you looked at the extractor? Some of them were made with the MIM process and could fail. George  | |||
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Wow- good question! I just purchased an SSK Industries .458 Lott built on an M70 action, and sure hope I never have to find out the solution to your quandary. Keep us posted with what you discover to be the problem. -John | |||
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Once the firearm is discharged and the action cycled the spent brass extracts from the chamber but does not eject. It pops off the extractor at the point of ejection and just lays there. This occurs about half the time. The gun cycled flawlessly before I had it reamed from win mag to lott so I think it obviously has something to do with that reaming. I took it to a local gunsmith and he told me the extractor was not engaging properly but he could not guarantee he could fix it with a beefier extractor. | |||
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Sounds like someone just broke the "Ejector" off, and that is a simple replacement part. NOthing to do with your extractor, all it does is extract and you are getting extraction... Check your Ejector. If your ejector is in place and working, then you just need to either tighten the "Extractor", which may be not tight enough to hold on to it until it hits the ejector, or get a new one, and that is yet again an easy fix. Either of these issues is an easy fix..... I send my issues like this to SSK Industries. Michael http://www.b-mriflesandcartridges.com/default.html The New Word is "Non-Conventional", add "Conventional" to the Endangered Species List! Live Outside The Box of "Conventional Wisdom" I do Not Own Any Part of Any Bullet Company, I am not in the Employ Of Any Bullet Company. I do not represent, own stock, nor do I receive any proceeds, or monies from ANY BULLET COMPANY. I am not in the bullet business, and have no Bullets to sell to you, nor anyone else. | |||
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Work the action hard and fast and see what happens..Bolt actions are designed to be worked fast, but they should work slow also..This will tell you if its an extractor or ejector..I strongly suspect it your extractor. Easy fix either way..do you have any other gunsmiths locally? Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Rusty McGee is not far from you. He posts here as member roughone. A simple case of ejector or extractor wear and tear, if they were once right. Bread and butter job for a competent smith like Rusty. Mail it or drive it over to his shop. Lessee where was that business card ... or send him a PM ... I stopped by his shop yesterday and interrupted him while he was doing the breech cut on an M70 barrel by a new method, some sort of cutting wheel simpler than the milling attachment on his lathe.  | |||
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Thanks, will contact Rusty. | |||
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