Thanks that's a nice one with the sight, mount, and ammo... But with taxes, shipping, and Gun Broker buyer fee (1%) it will be $14,000. That is a fair price but not a great buy...
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Thanks that's a nice one with the sight, mount, and ammo... But with taxes, shipping, and Gun Broker buyer fee (1%) it will be $14,000. That is a fair price but not a great buy...
Have dry fired mine 1000s of times. You are not going to hurt it.I’ve always dry fired on an empty. I never fired the gun on 375 barrel before and put in an empty fired in another rifle. The bolt closed up easily and dry fired but would not release. It would cock and dry fire again but still would not release. I tried until I got tired that evening. The next day it released easily after a few attempts and ejected the round. I don’t have an explanation but I lost some confidence in the R8 after that. A standard bolt action rifle you have options but with an R8 you just have to trust the engineering. I still really like the rifle as a rental rifle on hunts but I don’t think it will ever replace my conventional bolt action rifles as a first choice for my hunts after that.
Agreed. There is still a demand for the S2 and the prices reflect that fact. Not sure why they are shelf warmers in Germany.BeeMaa, my point is that. For all the hate. I’m not seeing anyone dump the S2 for a great price. They are all still used/retail prices
What surprised me from the event is I did not force the bolt closed in any way so I expected it would eject the round easily. I’ve never had one fail me as a rental rifle but it’s difficult to forget the event with my rifle. It was also suggested that the firing pin possibly got stuck but there was a noticeable click every time it recocked and I pulled the trigger hoping it would release. Hopefully it will only be a one time event.@375Fox please do not loose confidence in your Blaser. It functions as designed.
Blaser's have tight (minimum tolerance) chambers compared to many other rifles. There is nothing loose or sloppy about Blasers! They are precision instruments designed and manufactured to something like aerospace specifications! A crawl through the mud of trench warfare Mauser 98 or AK-47 they are not.
It is highly likely that your empty fired cartridge case was fired in a rifle with a slightly larger chamber. That cartridge case expanded to fill the other rifle's chamber during firing. Then, it contracted enough to extract it from the chamber. Young's Modulus, "everything is a spring..." but the cartridge case did not return to it's previously unfired dimensions.
All cases expand when fired to fill the chamber. The larger the chamber the more the expansion. This is how we fire-form brass for wildcat cartridges like the Ackley Improved (AI) cartridges. Then, after firing, the brass contracts but not all the way to the unfired dimensions. Once again, a larger chamber will produce fired brass of larger dimensions than will a smaller chamber such as found in Blasers.
A "turn bolt" action rifle provides camming and de-camming power to chamber and de-chamber and extract. A straight-pull action does not have the same level of camming power to cycle rounds that are out of (too large) tolerance for a tight chamber.
FYI: I have a Blaser S-2 double in .375 H&H. It is finicky about chambering reloaded ammo, even if it is full length resized. One of the chambers is more forgiving than the other but still likes virgin or Blaser-only brass. The problem is clearly chambers cut to the minimum SAAMI or CIP standards. I strongly believe the oversize problem occurs in the "head" of the cartridge case... I've measured the cases that will not chamber and their case heads are slightly larger.
I’ll also take a shelf warmer."FYI: I have a Blaser S-2 double in .375 H&H. It is finicky about chambering reloaded ammo, even if it is full length resized. One of the chambers is more forgiving than the other but still likes virgin or Blaser-only brass. The problem is clearly chambers cut to the minimum SAAMI or CIP standards. I strongly believe the oversize problem occurs in the "head" of the cartridge case... I've measured the cases that will not chamber and their case heads are slightly larger."
Blaser can do many things.
What they can't do is build double rifles.
Although your problem may also occur with another manufacturer, to be fair.
In Germany Blaser double rifles are shelf warmer .
But R 8 is a big seller here.
Heavily used R 93 still cost a lot of money also.
Foxi
Blaser drug problem….Only problem I have is I keep buying more barrels and receivers. Ha