Need Gunsmith

25 April 2013, 00:40

Ken Moody

Need Gunsmith

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.

25 April 2013, 02:20

cal pappas

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

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26 April 2013, 23:20

GeorgeS

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

27 April 2013, 07:04

John Galt

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

27 April 2013, 19:09

Ken Moody

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.

27 April 2013, 19:27

michael458

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

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27 April 2013, 21:01

Atkinson

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?

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28 April 2013, 05:33

RIP

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.