Had a big scare yesterday!! - 09/09/18
Built a barreled receiver for my Eliseo tube gun. Been very slowly working on it for a year. I was able to pick up a PT&G squared up, new Remington receiver with a 1 piece bolt and M16 extractor. I chambered a medium Palma taper Shilen barrel in 6.5 Creedmore. It is 25" and has a Shilen trigger. Though the Tube Chassis was new I had no instructions. I couldn't get the A1Sc magazines to snap in. Gary Eliseo was great and emailed instructions. I had to mill the boss in the bottom of the receiver that had threads for a receiver screw?? Now my magazines work. I had some once fired Prime "Norma" brass that a forum member gave me as everybody was out of Lapua at the time. I seated some bullets long to check seating depth. Dam$$ things wouldn't chamber. Didn't know what happened. Checked the chamber and bore for an obstruction and found nothing.
Long story-short, I got up this morning and tried to chamber a new piece of brass, it was perfect. Why had I not checked the donor brass!! Headspace on it was .009 too long. I'm good to go and hope to shoot it this coming week. Now I need to decide what I will do with it.
Long story-short, I got up this morning and tried to chamber a new piece of brass, it was perfect. Why had I not checked the donor brass!! Headspace on it was .009 too long. I'm good to go and hope to shoot it this coming week. Now I need to decide what I will do with it.