Normally my Knight Disc rifle with the Lehigh Conversion is just a pleasure to shoot. Boy!! not today. I regret loosing my temper today. There was a country working installing a snowmobile trail sign out on the road when the rifle made me upset. And what I was calling that rifle, and the tone and volume I was using... I sure hope now he didn't think I was talking to him. Although he did hurry putting that sign up and left.
How could such a pretty rifle make me so angry you ask? Well I swabbed the oil out of the breech and barrel like normal. I was shooting 100 grains of BlackHorn 209, a 260 gr Harvester Scorpion PT with a MMP HPH-24 sabot, and Remington STS for starters. I'd popped two primers in the rifle to get it toned, and then loaded it up.
Shot the first round. All sounded fine. Like normal. Went to get the primer out.. and it would not come out. I shook and wiggled that rifle. No go, that primer was in there. I noticed it had backed out of the breech plug but for some reason the ejector was holding on to that primer like it was the winning lottery ticket.
So back in the house for the C tool and allen wrench to take the bolt out. Get the bolt out, and the C tool falls out. Then the bolt spring snaps closed and locked. Got the Lehigh adapter off the bolt and still had to pry that Remington Primer off the face of the bolt. Busted a thumb nail trying to pry it off. Then had to hold the C tool in my mouth, and spread that knob and bolt apart. Got it in the bolt and reset the C tool. And then for some reason the bolt would not go back in the rifle. No matter what I done. This is where the real blasphemer started. I bet that country worker was getting nervous at this point.
By now I was trying to calm down asking for one good reason why I should keep this rifle and this adapter kit. I figured a 100 yard walk and back to the target might give me time to relax. Just one reason was all I wanted!!
OK.. I felt a little better. I mean things do happen. Right?
Cleaned the bolt, springs, adaptor, every thing real good. Finally got it back together after resetting the C tool twice, and got the bolt in the rifle. Loaded the rifle, fired... PLOOP!! Misfire! @-/*%^ and another stuck primer. This was about all I could take!!
Debating whether to wrap that rifle around a tree or not, I took it all apart again, and checked it. Every thing looked good. Everything was clean.
So I disassembled the bolt and got the primer out. Being very careful with the C tool this time. Back together and Shot #3 sounded normal.
Loaded again, shot #4 sounded OK but again, STUCK PRIMER!! I was about fit to be tied.
I debated just putting the rifle away, but instead took the bolt out, removed the primer, and then changed primers. I put the Remington STS primers away and got some CCI 209 primers out from the house.
I then loaded and shot four more rounds.
#8 was again, a stuck primer with the CCI. I'd had enough!! I decided to clean the rifle out there, and enjoy the beautiful weather, and then put that rifle back in the rack.
5-8 might have been a stringer because of the heat, or the load.. I was firing without letting the barrel cool. I was the one that needed to cool down, not the rifle. Also I wanted to push that rifle and see if I could make the primer fail again. Which I finally did.
While the group was pretty good for 100 yards... this is not a rifle I would hunt with until I was sure that the Lehigh adapter would not jam on me like it did. When I did the final cleaning, I really scrubbed everything good and clean. Maybe in a week or two, I will bring the rifle back out and see if it does all of this again.