Bolt on Eddystone 1917 wont chamber a round?

[jamie5070]

Could there be a .308 chamber adapter in it?

[browningautorifle]

.308 chamber adapter

The ruptured cartridge tool would sort that out too, exact same symptom and ruptured casing...

[goessb170677]

Im going to give a +1 on a .308 chamber adapter. I cycled some .308 snap caps through the gun and they seem to work just fine. Im not throwing in the towel to .308 fully yet.

On Tuesday, or maybe Thursday, im going to get a chamber cast at a gunsmith 10 minutes away from me just to be sure.

[browningautorifle]

A classic. Never marked as that either. Still can be changed back without too much effort.

[M94/14]

Guy's, look again very carefully at his chamber pic. The way it looks to me, there is part of the neck of a casing stuck in the neck area of the chamber. Anybody else see this??

[Patrick Chadwick]

The way it looks to me, there is part of the neck of a casing stuck in the neck area of the chamber. Anybody else see this??

Could well be. Looks a bit sharp for the end of the neck section. The test I suggested is so simple that it should be tried first, before looking for special tools and speculating further.

[browningautorifle]

the neck of a casing

Could well be

Is that not what I said in post 7? Oh, I get it...you guys don't understand separated casing...

[Patrick Chadwick]

Oh, I get it...you guys don't understand separated casing...

Duuhh?? Wassat??

Oh, do you mean something like this?

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Actually Jim, if you read my post carefully, you will see that at no time did I disagree with you, but kept an open mind and said it could be either a case fragment or a Bubbaed rechambering, since I have experienced both. What I am really hoping for is that we all stop speculating until the original poster finally conducts the utterly simple test that I proposed and finds out which it is. And if it is a bit of casing, then I agree with you that he should get the proper tool - as shown above.

On Tuesday, or maybe Thursday, im going to get a chamber cast at a gunsmith 10 minutes away from me just to be sure.

If there is a case fragment (of which my photo shows a particularly nasty example) then the casting material will flow in and solidify in front of the fragment, making it impossible to get it out again without removing the action from the stock and melting it out! And if you drive it out, there will be a ring of casting material left between the front of the fragment and the start of the transition cone. I fear that you may be about to spend money to make matters worse.

If my deduction is wrong, then I am happy to be enlightened, but until then, please remember KISS, and make the simple test that I recommended.

[browningautorifle]

stop speculating until the original poster finally conducts the utterly simple test that I proposed

Agreed.

[CINDERS]

I am of the neck separation but really did not want to say anything as is not the transition from the leede to the rifling not as defined as what we see at the end of this weapons chamber anyway we will wait till the owner has the things done and they will report back as I am sure all we have at heart is the safety of the buyer/end user and that this person can get the weapon up and running and have some funnnnnn........like me tomorrow