KansasHunter5

If you send these guns back to h&r they will actually do a factory trigger job and work it down to a crisp 3 pounds for you for i believe 30 dollars. While you are doing this you can get a new barrel for it to real cheap. I have heard a lot of good things about these guns. Some problems with ejection are due to an underpolished bore or dirty brass on a cartridge. Clean your loads before you load them and polish the bore and you wont have a problem. They are supposed to be very accurate guns. I think they even use barrel blanks from the same company Marlin gets them from(since they are the same company) and everyone knows the accuracy of marlins guns.
Chris

Steve F.in MD

I have one in .308 and it fails to eject on occasion. It's a pain in the butt to have to cary a ramrod around with you in the woods! It does shoot OK but being worried about a stuck case is a bummer.

etothepii

I've heard of guys carrying a small brass rod -- maybe 3 to 6 inch long. Drop it down the barrel to knock out the stuck brass.

There are some who file a small notch in the breach too, and use a small screw driver or knife tip to pop out the stuck brass.

strut

I never used to see any problems out of them, but the last year or so I can name several, from not grouping to not ejecting the spent case, to just right down not firing, I don't know if they have changed something or what, but I don't think they are as good as they used to be.

strut

I have a buddy that has one and it wil fire 1 round just fine, ejecting the casing and everything, but you fire it twice rather quickly and you will have a stuck casing, also the primer in the second round will be mashed flat against the reciever, something tells me he has a head spacing problem on the 2nd round generated by the heat from the first round, kind of weird I guess.

Hunter06FlKy

i've thought of getting one in 223 or 22-250. they're cheap and pretty dang accurate from what i've heard.

mainehunt

I bought this exact gun about 8-10 years ago. (223 bull barrel) I gave it to my father a year ago when I bought my Bushmaster-223

The NEF is a great gun. I agree with missed_another about the ammo. Mine also liked the Winchester ammo that comes in the 40 round white box. Shooting from sandbags, it would put 3 bullets @ 100 yds into a group small enough to cover with a dime. I honestly think that it would do better if the trigger was better. This one takes 8 pounds to break. (seriously) I just never got around to sending it to NEF to lower the trigger pull.

Mine has never jjammed or failed to fire. It has worked flawlessly ever since I bought it new. I have fired about 500 rounds through it.

I would recommend one to anybody wanting a cheap, single-shot rifle.

Kev

James B

They will soon have a new mechanical extractor that will elliminate the stuck case deal forever. They have a few little quirks but are more than worth the money. One will have little or no trouble with the 223 or any case with a rim. The 243 is the worst for sticking brass. I have not had a 308 but had a 30-06 and 280. I now have the 357 Mag,44 Mag,7mm08 45-70 and the Buffalo classic. Also a 12 Ga shotgun. Most all of the 223's will come close to or better 1/2 inch at 100 yards with the cheap 40 grain WW shells.

Ark City Larry

I have 12 Handi/Sportsters, very good rifles, good accuracy, 7mm-08 sticks cases occasionally, need to polish its chamber with JB bore paste. For the money, they are hard to beat. All of my recent ones have great triggers.

Roskoe

I have done several trigger tunings on these guns. Not real difficult.Alsohave heard complaints about the guns tending to string shots vertically with hot loads. They seem to be a pretty good truck gun.