I was hoping someone could give tell me how much the bullet should be pushed into the rifling on my CMP Kimber rifle. I am suspecting that the chamber is too tight. I keep getting miss fires and I am thinking that the cartridge is not seated properly and when the firing pin strikes, the force from the firing pin is being absorbed when the cartridge is seated forward. The rifle will fire 100% of the time if I recock the bolt and try again. I have tried different ammo with different rim thickness and still miss fires. Extracting an unfired round, it looks like the bullet in pushed into the rifling about .100 inch. Extracting a miss fire shows a light strike on the rim. A fired rounds shows a well indented strike. Any thoughts? TIA JimInformation
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