Federal gold medal match 308, came apart in chamber!

[rfkhunter]

60 rounds is pretty quick but check for a carbon ring. It will not affect the go/nogo gauges as the ring is in the free bore.
I did give it a good cleaning and lube afterwards. That's when I cycled the 40rds without a problem. Heading to range this weekend!

[culpeper]

Paint the bullet with black magic marker and chamber the cartridge. If it is in the lands it will show it. BTW, check a SAAMI schematic before seating too far back. There is a minimal COAL.

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[Zero333]

I skipped through all the posts so forgive me if I missed something but...

This Happened to my brother several years ago when he got his new FCP-K. I remember even one of the cases had a split neck after being fired. It was a beautiful rifle and unfortunately the barrel doesn't last forever. Fluted with the Savage muzzle brake looked very nice for sure.

Problem is the Freebore/lead of the chamber is VERY tight and needs some loosening. After a few hundred rounds everything was good. I also polished the chamber a little on that rifle to make extraction a little smoother.

Few years later after I took the barrel off I still found powder kernels in the action.

[rfkhunter]

Well. so far so good. Went to range had no issues.. Federal inspected the 2 full boxes and the 3 rounds.. All was fine. They said they couldn't find any marks on bullet or case.

[rfkhunter]

Well. so far so good. Went to range had no issues.. Federal inspected the 2 full boxes and the 3 rounds.. All was fine. They said they couldn't find any marks on bullet or case.

[Zero333]

The problem is the fellas cutting the chambers don't inspect the reamers often enough and end up chambering some barrels with a worn out reamer.

A worn out reamer will cut a tight chamber with tight freebore/leade making bullets jam in there when being chambered.

Like I said.... After XXX amount of rounds fired in the chamber, the freebore/leade will loosen and all will be good as it should have been from the beginning. Not a big deal. Just don't try ejecting live rounds if you can avoid it.

On the other hand you could have a chamber with short freebore, hence the bullets jamming in the rifling. Only way to fix that is have a Smith run a throater in the chamber to extend the freebore, or send it back to Savage.

A chamber cast is not hard to do by yourself and not expensive. Cerrosafe is the name of the chamber casting product and Brownells and Midway and other places sell it for about $15.

With a chamber cast you will find out for sure what the deal is. Any Gunsmith can also do a chamber cast.