Sako Finnfire 22Lr Feed Problem

[hily 379]

Took a walk about with the 22LR and lamp after a few rabbits hadn't used the Sako for some time but on its last outing it was fine and zeroed ok bolt seemed stiff when pushing home the round and missed the first few bunnies (head shooting) so thinking it must be me as not that good a shot that I hit everything I aim at I decided to go for body shots and got the next two but now the round just didn't want to feed into the chamber and so I packed in .Today I cleaned the rifle and even used an air line to blow any gunge out that I couldn't reach and then had a go feeding the rounds into the chamber as I pushed the bolt forward the round was so miss aligned that a piece of the bullet head was shaved of as it entered the chamber.Started the think gunsmith bill in the offing but thought one last good look at whats happening. The round was not being sprung up to the top a the magazine and on closer inspection there was a build up of what looked like wax on the inner lip of the mag so cleaned it off and now the bolt is back to its smooth action and rounds a feeding in nicely .just thought I would share this in case anyone else gets the same problem.

1 Wax could be from case coating.

2 shaved bullet head could account for missing or could just be me will find out next session

[SportingShooter 0]

The .22LR is messy ammunition, before and after firing.

 

Always end up with that wax building up on my fingers after a day of using mine

[andyf 144]

Have a 'similar' issue with my Finnfire Varmint', the 5 shot mags are fine, but the 9 shot doesn't like it at all

it jams when it feels like it, the top round seems to be 'angled' too steeply and crashes into the breech.

Answer is to only load 6>7 rounds, so guess what? I don't use the metal £40.00 piece of sh*t

only the plastic 5's.

[hily 379]

when I had a lot of rabbits to go at I bought an extra plastic 5 round mag and loaded both before going out so just had to swap mags if needing to take more shots and then refill both as and when needed .Sometimes loaded stingers in one and subs in the other but always took rounds out and left mags empty before storing away leaving no load on the spring in mag thinking less chance of weakening the spring action. Didn't cross my mind that the mag would be causing the problem until I spotted all the gunge in the top of the mag.