Originally Posted by free_miner
I've broken the bolt stop block off the extractor ring on a 308 action, though that was on an across-the-course rifle that had at least 9-10k rounds through it at that time. It locked up the action, but I cleared it, shot an alibi string and carried on for the day.

I've also had a bolt sleeve lock disappear. Easily replaced with wisner parts and peened the retaining pin so it didn't happen again.


I can see that stuff happening. Match shooters can abuse stuff in ways ordinary shooters never could.




The 280 Remington is overbore.

The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.