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I was just notified this evening that Bud's Gun Shop has them in again. Early last month I asked to be notified when they arrived but, I ordered a CZ 550 American with Kevlar stock that will be in tomorrow.

Mine came back from McMillan earlier this week sporting a nice MK-II Classic McWoody

Scotts94-, specifically which stock is that--I like it--and the McM website is not very intuitive to me.

I have an African I'm thinking of getting a syn stock for. Thanks.

I've been looking for one for some time now and I can't find one anywhere. Hopefully they're still making them.

I just figured out why some 9.3's misfire. I had a 9.3x66 Sako chambered in a new Win 70 rifle. Using factory Sako brass imported from England, I experienced a lot of misfires, especially with new unfired Sako cases. Fire-forming helped but did not eliminate the problem. Using a headspace gauge, I noticed that even when loaded at the correct headspace, rounds which misfired always had shoulders pushed back somtimes as much as 0.008-0.015". I was pulling my hair out wondering why. I took a perfectly fire-formed case with the spent primer still in, chambered it, and dropped the hammer on the the spent case. I was shocked to find that the force of the firing pin blow actually drove/swaged the case further into the chamber creating excessive headspace. The energy of the firing pin strike was driving the shallow shouldered 9.3x66 case further forward into the chamber instead of detonating the primer. When I repeated the test, I discovered that successive pin strikes would drive the case deeper and deeper as far as 0.030" with 4 or 5 successive dry fires. 0.015" of forward travel is more than enough to cause a misfire. I will try different barnds of brass to see if the Sako brass may be to "soft".

Looking at chamber diagrams, I suspect the same thing may be happening to cause misfires with the 9.3x62, and 35 Whelen, both of which have small shallow shoulders. By the way, this "case swaging" didn't happen with a .308 Win or .375 Ruger. What does the group think? Does that make sense? It happened to me.

I just figured out why some 9.3's misfire. I had a 9.3x66 Sako chambered in a new Win 70 rifle. Using factory Sako brass imported from England, I experienced a lot of misfires, especially with new unfired Sako cases. Fire-forming helped but did not eliminate the problem. Using a headspace gauge, I noticed that even when loaded at the correct headspace, rounds which misfired always had shoulders pushed back somtimes as much as 0.008-0.015". I was pulling my hair out wondering why. I took a perfectly fire-formed case with the spent primer still in, chambered it, and dropped the hammer on the the spent case. I was shocked to find that the force of the firing pin blow actually drove/swaged the case further into the chamber creating excessive headspace. The energy of the firing pin strike was driving the shallow shouldered 9.3x66 case further forward into the chamber instead of detonating the primer. When I repeated the test, I discovered that successive pin strikes would drive the case deeper and deeper as far as 0.030" with 4 or 5 successive dry fires. 0.015" of forward travel is more than enough to cause a misfire. I will try different barnds of brass to see if the Sako brass may be to "soft".

Looking at chamber diagrams, I suspect the same thing may be happening to cause misfires with the 9.3x62, and 35 Whelen, both of which have small shallow shoulders. By the way, this "case swaging" didn't happen with a .308 Win or .375 Ruger. What does the group think? Does that make sense? It happened to me.