TX35W, I believe you have described exactly what the issue is!!!
Glad to hear it Dixie.
One other thing to check: I had a Hawkeye that had some strange machining on the underside of the feed rails. At the very rear outer corner of the feed rails (bottom side of rails, where the mag box sits) there was a strange divot that the case rim would occasionally catch on/jam into as the bolt pushed the case forward.
This divot or whatever was easy to see when I took the gun apart and looked at the underside. Dremel, flat stone, whatever I used...it was sort of tricky to get at because it was in the corner, but I got that smoothed out and it fixed the problem.
I still like Rugers.
