Help! Misfires. [message #41477] |
Sun, 24 July 2016 21:42 |
guncrazyhoosier
Messages: 19 Registered: December 2015 Location: NE Indiana
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Getting light strikes and misfires with 35 Remington barrel. Other centerfire barrels firing OK.
Is this a headspace problem and how do I fix it.
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Re: Help! Misfires. [message #41482 is a reply to message #41481] |
Mon, 25 July 2016 13:35 |
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Crubear
Messages: 1796 Registered: March 2010 Location: NW Georgia
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Things I'd try:
1) Take apart the firing pin assembly and clean it.
2) Remove and clean out the locking bolt as well.
-- Possibly replace the spring with a stronger one or
-- Stone a little bit off the top of the bolt to bring the barrel down and in a little tighter.
-- OR - if you have another barrel, try swapping the locking bolt and spring.
3) make a shim to slide between the extractor and the barrel.
-- See if the extractor being out a little bit helps. If it does - carefully bend the extractor out.
4) For reloads.... use Bellm's suggested method.
- take out the extractor
- Fire five rounds
- Check, the base of the fired case should sit a bit above the face of the barrel (that's your barrel/frame gap).
- back out the sizing die, and turn it down until the case sits flat level with the barrel face.
- Size the next case and adjust (repeat until no adjustment is required)
-- reload these five and see what happens.
Honestly, I have all the barrels I want or could ever need..... wait, look, there's another!!
[Updated on: Mon, 25 July 2016 13:36] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Help! Misfires. [message #41483 is a reply to message #41482] |
Mon, 25 July 2016 13:37 |
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Crubear
Messages: 1796 Registered: March 2010 Location: NW Georgia
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Headspace has a whole lot of different dimensions/attributes when you talk the Contender/Encore.
In this case it's USUALLY the shoulder. Make sure you aren't bumping the shoulder back too far (allows the cartridge to slide into the chamber a bit further. The loaded ammo may have been manufactured to just above the minimum spec while you might have a chamber at the upper limit.
Did you recently replace the hammer spring with a stronger one?
Oh, and make sure you don't have any oil/solvent on the case or in the chamber.
Honestly, I have all the barrels I want or could ever need..... wait, look, there's another!!
[Updated on: Mon, 25 July 2016 13:40] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Help! Misfires. [message #42194 is a reply to message #42190] |
Thu, 01 December 2016 11:21 |
rootmanslim
Messages: 11 Registered: November 2016
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The powder and charge can be anyone correct for a Contender.
The Hodgdon site has loads with 3031,4895 and 4064 under pistol loads for a 170 gr bullet.
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