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Was hoping to get some input and insight on a little problem I've had recently. I bought on Gunbroker a left handed Ruger M77 MkII in 300 Win mag for my son-in-law. This is for our upcoming elk hunt this November in Montana. The rifle is in excellent, like new condition, stainless and laminated stock. I bought two different flavors of ammo and off we went to an indoor gun range to check our bore-sighting of the scope we mounted. A couple of rounds fired and then a couple just went click, but no bang.
Son-in-law took gun to a gunsmith buddy of his, got the firing pin assembly pulled apart, cleaned, lubricated, reassembled. He went and fired it and no issues. I was home in the US recently and took the rifle out to the range and planned to zero it at 200 yards on the Lead Sled. Click, no bang. Took the rifle to my gunsmith and he checked it out, said everything was in specs on the firing pin, spring, etc. The gunsmith did say that some brands of ammo have had primer problems and the two brands he named happened to be the two I was shooting. I have never had this problem before with any rifle or any ammo. Was wondering if anyone on the forum has heard of this type of issue. I plan to get some different ammo and give it a try, but the confidence level in this rifle is currently very low.
Thanks!
Dave
Son-in-law took gun to a gunsmith buddy of his, got the firing pin assembly pulled apart, cleaned, lubricated, reassembled. He went and fired it and no issues. I was home in the US recently and took the rifle out to the range and planned to zero it at 200 yards on the Lead Sled. Click, no bang. Took the rifle to my gunsmith and he checked it out, said everything was in specs on the firing pin, spring, etc. The gunsmith did say that some brands of ammo have had primer problems and the two brands he named happened to be the two I was shooting. I have never had this problem before with any rifle or any ammo. Was wondering if anyone on the forum has heard of this type of issue. I plan to get some different ammo and give it a try, but the confidence level in this rifle is currently very low.
Thanks!
Dave