Blaser Rifle Misfire....

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I have a new Blaser Rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor...and I am having trouble making it fire consecutive rounds...when I first got it, I could not get a single round to fire....I sent the bolt back to the factory and got them to check it out...they replaced the firing pin and put a new spring in as well...I tired it again and this time would only fire 4 out of ten rounds....I have Nosler ammo, and would think it was premium product....anyone else experience this happening?...I thought it may be pilot error, but my son tried it too, an same results..I really love the concept, and would like to keep the rifle,but misfires cannot be lived with..thanks for any ideas...
 
I know nothing about Blaser rifles but I would not accept 1 in 100 failures to fire from a $200 rifle. It sounds like either time to send the whole kit back for repair at their expense or return it to where you bought it.
Holy crap I just looked and saw how much those cost. Forget sending it back, they should be flying a gunsmith to your house to fix it.
 
LOL! $200.00???....I have no idea about this rifle....I love the bolt action,but it may be the ammo...stay tuned..
 
No experience with Blaser but I did have a Remington with similar failure to fire issues with a bolt rifle. I bought a Timney trigger to replace the recalled 700 trigger. The Timney trigger had issues from the factory. Lots of failure to fire with several different manufacturer's ammo. I returned the trigger to Timney and they made repairs. No issues since. Maybe it's the trigger and not the bolt assembly? A local gunsmith was sure the ammo was the issue but not in my case. PMC, Remington, Hornady, Blue Hills all had the same issue.
 
pwillie said:
LOL! $200.00???....I have no idea about this rifle....I love the bolt action,but it may be the ammo...stay tuned..
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Sorry, I stated that badly. I meant to say that I wouldn’t even accept 1 misfire in 100 from a cheap rifle, which the Blaser most certainly is not. I would hold them to an even higher standard.
 
A Blaser?

Hmm...

...those things are PERFECT from the get - go!

Blasphemer!

Well, a lemon may turn up every now and then...

Interested to see what failed.
 
I say we need pics of the rifle and the primer strikes or it didn't happen.....or I'm just board and want to see a nice rifle.
 
While you're taking pics what does the brass look like near the head?

Excess headspace can result in light primer strikes too but you should see a ring around the cartridge case from stretching if that's happening. Cure for that is a new barrel.

BSW
 
pwillie said:
No strikes on primers... nothing nada...
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Ok, something is grossly wrong.

How is it firing at all if there are no primer strikes on some of the primers?
1) Nothing is different between the rounds that fire and the ones that done't?
2) The rounds that fire all come from the same box and are loaded the same way as the rounds that don't fire?
3) The striker is cocked on the rounds that don't fire and looks the same when it fires?
4) The ammunition matches the markings in the rifle?

BSW
 
Dr T said:
Defective trigger group that incompletely resets?
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That's what I was thinking asking about the striker position. If the striker is following the bolt down there wouldn't be any energy to set off the primer.

Or he's shooting the wrong 6.5 round* and the ones that fire were held against the bolt face by the extractor.

BSW

*Impossible you say? I was shooting with a buddy and he was having horrible misfeeds with his Sig in .45 ACP. It was because he bought a box of .45 GAP by mistake and was shooting them.
 
Along the line of wrong round: It could be a lot of defective cases used in the Nosler ammo.

While I would not expect this to be the case, it can happen. When the 35 Whelen was standardized by Remington, I bought the 700 Classic in that chambering. To go along with it, I also bought a lot of, I believe, 500 cases of Remington brass. I had results similar to that described by the OP with my first handloads which I only neck sized. It turns out that the cases in that lot had been formed with the shoulder set back just far enough that the ignition was inconsistent. After a number of phone calls I ran down the production guys for these cases and Remington did replace them. But it took some work. The thing is: The loaded factory rounds (with a different lot of brass) worked just find.

I concur with briansmithwins: Get some different ammo (I suggest Hornady, but only because it works for me) and try it.

This is one of those "If you hear hoof beats, do you look for horses or look for zebras?" questions.
 
Okay I’ve had this issue with a Blaser before. First thing to check, make sure the bolt is fully in battery. There is a small over center notch just before the bolt fully closes. If the bolt handle is even slightly aft and not fully over center fully forward and set in that notch the rifle will fail to fire. Bump the bolt handle forward and see if it’s maybe hanging up just aft of the full forward position. Some Blasers have a slight hitch and you need to bump the handle forward to make sure.

If that is not the problem, immediately send the rifle back to Blaser and demand a fix or a new rifle. Blasers are NOT something to mess with because if they somehow were to fire when not fully locked up there is nothing to keep the bolt from flying back and blowing half you head off. The R-93 was infamous for removing parts of peoples faces when the bolt ring failed and the bolt flew back into the shooters face at high velocity.

BTW is this an R-93 or an R-8?
 
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briansmithwins said:
Your camera is very interested in the wood grain of that table...

Can you measure the firing pin protrusion?

BSW
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as you can see it was a strike, the others were not touched...anyway I have lost confidence in this rifle.....no, I have no way to measure the depth of the strike...
 
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