Kuyong_Chuin
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I have two different rifles I am having problems with that I am not sure how to go about fixing the problems. First is a Marlin Model 60 22 LR rifle, it had a broken trigger guard which I finally found a new one locally. I replaced the guard and found out I was still having some of the same problems I was having when I found out the guard was broke. Failure to fire reliably and failure to eject round when having to manually eject the failed to fire round causing it to jam unless you unload the rifle mag first. It has been cleaned and all the parts checked for broken pieces but can not find anything broken. Only problem found on the internal parts was the bolt return spring had a kink in it so I replaced the spring with a new one and still have the same problems. Any ideas on what is causing this rifle to fail?
The second rifle is my 7.62 x 54R M44 Carbine. My nephew, who is just out of the army, was here helping to sight in the rifle since I can not do so yet because of surgery on my arm. We set up 3 targets at one at each spot 35 yards, 100 yards and 292 yards. The target were the 35 yard near zero, the 292 far zero, and the 100 yard target was to be 3.04 inches high for max point blank range for the 150 grain bullet I would be using. We started off using the 180 grain S&B rounds hoping to get it close then to fine tune the rifle with the 150 grain PPU rounds. First shot fired at the 35 yard target hit 4.25 inches high. We let the barrel cool and adjusted the scope to what should have been 4.25 inches lower on the target. Second shot fired over the target. More adjusting and 3 more shots still shooting over the target. 100 yard target same thing gun was shooting high no matter how many clicks we tried. Far target it hit the ground two feet in front of the target. With only one hole in the first target and none in any of the others and only one round left from the box of 180's I measured the bullet and found out they are .308 bullets not .311. Measured the PPU rounds and they are the correct size and the first round of if hit the top of the 35 yard target, four rounds later all are still shooting over the targets. If the new scope is not bad what would be causing these round to shoot high all the time? I can not see the iron sights with this setup without removing the cheek rest which would make the scope almost useless. :banghead:
The second rifle is my 7.62 x 54R M44 Carbine. My nephew, who is just out of the army, was here helping to sight in the rifle since I can not do so yet because of surgery on my arm. We set up 3 targets at one at each spot 35 yards, 100 yards and 292 yards. The target were the 35 yard near zero, the 292 far zero, and the 100 yard target was to be 3.04 inches high for max point blank range for the 150 grain bullet I would be using. We started off using the 180 grain S&B rounds hoping to get it close then to fine tune the rifle with the 150 grain PPU rounds. First shot fired at the 35 yard target hit 4.25 inches high. We let the barrel cool and adjusted the scope to what should have been 4.25 inches lower on the target. Second shot fired over the target. More adjusting and 3 more shots still shooting over the target. 100 yard target same thing gun was shooting high no matter how many clicks we tried. Far target it hit the ground two feet in front of the target. With only one hole in the first target and none in any of the others and only one round left from the box of 180's I measured the bullet and found out they are .308 bullets not .311. Measured the PPU rounds and they are the correct size and the first round of if hit the top of the 35 yard target, four rounds later all are still shooting over the targets. If the new scope is not bad what would be causing these round to shoot high all the time? I can not see the iron sights with this setup without removing the cheek rest which would make the scope almost useless. :banghead: