Received by ATF 1/27/23 and approved 1/24/24. 362 days if my math is correct. My last one took 366 days. They have really sped things up. (n) Bunch of losers is what they are.
Hotel in Medicine Bow Wyoming. It was a fire trap that was about 75 yards from the rail line that dozens of coal trains passed by all night. That place would shake like a dog chitting razor blades every time one would go by. But, I did kill thousands of p-dogs around there every summer.
The most definitive way to determine viability of a scope is a scope checker. Most notably the Hood scope checker. The devise mounts 2 scopes side by side, one of which is frozen by glueing the erector tube in place so it can't move. The scope under exam is adjusted to the same point of aim...
If the bolt is indeed touching then you have two options....
1. Send the rifle back to the manufacturer and have them deal with it.
or....
2. Get it to a gunsmith. The correct way of resolving the problem is to pull the barrel and increase the depth of the counterbore to the proper clearance...
I see another potential issue. At 10 o'clock the blueing is worn off, probably from the bolt coming in contact with the breech. Color the bare steel with a black sharpie marker and cycle the bolt several times. If the marker is gone your buddy has issues. I've seen a bunch of rifles over the...
I have 2 of them that I built. On paper there isn't much difference between the .22-250 Imp and the .22 CM. I've had both and the reality of the deal is that there is that the CM case has just enough more case capacity to reach another tuning node above the .22-250 Imp. It's good for an...