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I recently bought a used Henry .22LR lever-action carbine, specifically the "Evil Roy" variant of the H001. Nice gun, a little bit of wear around the chamber and the muzzle, but otherwise seemed in good shape. I've only shot it a couple of times, about fifty rounds or so, because I've never owned a levergun before and wanted to get used to loading and handling it using dummy rounds.
Problem: It consistently misfeeds the dummy rounds, and in a way I can't find documented anywhere. There's a number of sources that talk about misfeeds where the nose of the bullet comes up at the wrong angle and doesn't fit into the breech. But the problem I'm having is not that. What happens is this: I swing the lever down and the bolt slides back, and I can see the round in the receiver ready to be loaded. When I swing the lever up and the bolt starts forward, the round should angle nose-up and slide into the breech. It doesn't. Instead it angles nose down, so the bolt hits the rear end of the round and pushes it forward and down, resulting in a hard jam. I have to use a screwdriver to nudge the round, sometimes several times, before it angles up the way it should and I can extract it.
I'm using Steelworx steel dummy rounds, which are supposedly exact matches in size and weight for live .22LR rounds. Sometimes they feed cleanly, and sometimes they have this jamming problem. The same round will go through cleanly sometimes, and jam sometimes. What's going on here? I don't want to risk shooting the rifle again until I understand what's happening. Is this a problem with the dummy rounds, or is there really something wrong with the rifle mechanism? And if this happens with a live round, is there any danger of accidentally firing the round while trying to clear the jam?
Problem: It consistently misfeeds the dummy rounds, and in a way I can't find documented anywhere. There's a number of sources that talk about misfeeds where the nose of the bullet comes up at the wrong angle and doesn't fit into the breech. But the problem I'm having is not that. What happens is this: I swing the lever down and the bolt slides back, and I can see the round in the receiver ready to be loaded. When I swing the lever up and the bolt starts forward, the round should angle nose-up and slide into the breech. It doesn't. Instead it angles nose down, so the bolt hits the rear end of the round and pushes it forward and down, resulting in a hard jam. I have to use a screwdriver to nudge the round, sometimes several times, before it angles up the way it should and I can extract it.
I'm using Steelworx steel dummy rounds, which are supposedly exact matches in size and weight for live .22LR rounds. Sometimes they feed cleanly, and sometimes they have this jamming problem. The same round will go through cleanly sometimes, and jam sometimes. What's going on here? I don't want to risk shooting the rifle again until I understand what's happening. Is this a problem with the dummy rounds, or is there really something wrong with the rifle mechanism? And if this happens with a live round, is there any danger of accidentally firing the round while trying to clear the jam?
