Waterboy3313
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I purchased a new Ruger American Predator 223 in Remington a few months ago. It's been sitting put away since I bought it because I haven't had the time to set it up. Sunday afternoon I decided to hand load a dummy round so I could start preparing for a load work up this week.
I started with a 69gr RMR BTHP loaded to mag length. It would not feed from the magazine. I seated it a little deeper and tried to chamber the round from the magazine again. I repeated this step several more times until it decided it would feed. After it would feed I still couldn't get the bolt to close.
Seated deeper and could eventually get the bolt to close but not easily like it should. I also tried the same thing with a Hornady 40gr Vmax bullet. By the time I could close the bolt the bullet was about ready to fall into the case.
I will have time to look back into this tonight but it's kind of driving me crazy. I'm wondering if the head space is wrong or something else I'm not seeing. Any suggestions before I ship it back to ruger would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to do that if I don't have to.
I started with a 69gr RMR BTHP loaded to mag length. It would not feed from the magazine. I seated it a little deeper and tried to chamber the round from the magazine again. I repeated this step several more times until it decided it would feed. After it would feed I still couldn't get the bolt to close.
Seated deeper and could eventually get the bolt to close but not easily like it should. I also tried the same thing with a Hornady 40gr Vmax bullet. By the time I could close the bolt the bullet was about ready to fall into the case.
I will have time to look back into this tonight but it's kind of driving me crazy. I'm wondering if the head space is wrong or something else I'm not seeing. Any suggestions before I ship it back to ruger would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to do that if I don't have to.