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I got my new 8mm barrel and started to heapspace it. I set it to lock up and then I when one click out. I loaded a romy round in the the bolt closed all the way. So I moved the barrel back to lock up (0 clicks out) and load up another romy round and the bolt still closed. With the bolt closed I took a small screw drive and I could move the round forward and backwards about 0.010" I tried some 80 yugo I had and it was the same thing. So I put all my .308 stuff back in and ran it out two click and loaded a round. I was not able to move the round forward and backwards with my screw driver. I've attached two pic one of my .308 barrel and round and one of my 8mm barrel and round. In the .308 pic with bolt pushed all the way forward you can still see a small gap between the extractor lips on the bolt and the barrel. On the 8mm pic the bolt is pushed forward all the way and the extractor lips are hitting the barrel and the round is still loose. Is this chambered to deep?. Is it safe to shoot. I don't think it is safe. I've though about removing 0.020" off the back of the barrel. I wouldn't be cutting into the chamber. It would just have a smaller radius leading into the chamber. I'm going to contact the manufacture before I do this. I had to use up the last of my .308 ammo today
Is this normally for 8mm barrels? What do you guys think? Thanks
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