Here is the bottom line on all of this. The plunger is in the right spot to eject the case out as low as possible. If it is anymore down, the case goes even further up. The predator also has the longer bottom port. That requires the bolt to be pulled further back which requires the port that much more back if you want to eject a loaded round. On this action for a loaded round to eject it will require a big cut on the port rear to open up the area all the way to the boltface. I will be happy to do this but it will look like hell. Most customers would rather have the port smaller and not worry about ejecting a loaded round.
This was a first run action. Since then we have made a few changes that help the empty eject. We moved the sako into the lug about 5 deg and are now putting in a narrow ejector. All of this was to help in the case from hitting oversize scope knobs, not to just eject. I have sold literally a thousand of these actions and have had but a few people have problems like this.
On this action I have talked with the owner and told him on many occasions to just send it back and I will happily refund his money. A factory Remington action will fit back in the stock or another clone could be used. He has always refused to do this. I am not sure what more I can do.
So if there is a fix, why could mine not be fixed? A simple exchange of bolts would suffice, would it not? Jerry, the point of this conversation was not to bash you or your product, although it has been hard to not go into more detail about this whole debacle. Obviously there are other people out there who do not know that a loaded round will not eject in your action that is advertised as a hunting action. That information should be available up front to your customers. If it is going to be used for hunting, it should be able to eject a loaded round. As far as refunding the purchase price, see my previous post. The cost of having it re-bedded, barrel re-threaded and chambered, new magazine box, etc., after I have paid to ship it back and forth to you from Alaska (not cheap) and paid another gunsmith to work on it just to get it to where it is now. My original post on this subject was to simply let people know something they obviously didn't. I also let your offer to refund my money be known in a previous post. I think if you look at it from my perspective, you would see that refunding the price of the action does not solve the problem. If I could get this thing to RELIABLY eject fired cases without paying another penny, I would consider the issue resolved.
