PandaBearBG
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Been out of the loop awhile, but recently purchased and older pre safety Marlin 336 in 30-30, my first lever gun, bought it on the cheap, for $150, ramline stock, some light pitting on the ouside. Full disassembly, cleaned scrubbed and oiled all parts, punched and swabbed bore (nice and clean), reassembled, function check, everything working smooth.
Took her out with Winchester Super X 30-30 WIN 170gr , open the action, put one round in the chamber, loaded 3 in the magazine tube. First round fired fine, cycled the action, next round chambered, fire, cycle open action, FTF. after pushing around gingerly with a slim screwdriver for a while I found giving a slight nudge on the rear of the round, maybe 1/8th of an inch the lever will close and the round will fire.
However, after numerous loading, this Fail to Fire sometimes happens to the first round, or second, or third, or 4th round 20% of the time. I make sure I fully cock and return the lever, I have tried working the action quickly and slowly, holding the rifle barrel up, forward, barrel down, and canted, the random jam happens anyway I try.
My best guess is that the next round in the magazine tube is pressing the round to the rear in the loading elevator? (dont know what to call it) and that 's where it gets stuck and by gingerly leveraging on the back of the round pushing it forward it will loosen and load.
Need help, do I need to replace a part? This is my first lever gun and totally in the dark about the finer tuning adjsutments to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Took her out with Winchester Super X 30-30 WIN 170gr , open the action, put one round in the chamber, loaded 3 in the magazine tube. First round fired fine, cycled the action, next round chambered, fire, cycle open action, FTF. after pushing around gingerly with a slim screwdriver for a while I found giving a slight nudge on the rear of the round, maybe 1/8th of an inch the lever will close and the round will fire.
However, after numerous loading, this Fail to Fire sometimes happens to the first round, or second, or third, or 4th round 20% of the time. I make sure I fully cock and return the lever, I have tried working the action quickly and slowly, holding the rifle barrel up, forward, barrel down, and canted, the random jam happens anyway I try.
My best guess is that the next round in the magazine tube is pressing the round to the rear in the loading elevator? (dont know what to call it) and that 's where it gets stuck and by gingerly leveraging on the back of the round pushing it forward it will loosen and load.
Need help, do I need to replace a part? This is my first lever gun and totally in the dark about the finer tuning adjsutments to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
