Don't EVER take a BLR apart!!

[Les Staley]

Seemed like a good idea at the time....    sticky extraction,  not much camming power in the action design.. thought I'd polish out the chamber,,   so  out came the two cross pins,  and  GEARS and stuff dropped out into my hands..  UH-OH..  knew right away I was in TROUBLE!!..  (rebuilt a T-90 transmission out of an old CJ5 one time..)   anyhow..  three hours later, and lots of head scratching got 'er back together,  shoots fine, and extracts some better..  still experimenting..  sure is a tight chamberd son of a gun..  308..    any suggestions?    Les

[Silvertp]

Nothing like the feeling of little gun parts and springs falling out and not being xactly sure where they came from.  You got my sympathy, thou sounds like you did just fine.

Not sure if your shooting reloads or not, but I recall some die manufacturers used to make "small base" resizing dies specifically for automatics and lever actions.  If it is reloads your having problems with you might want to look into the sb sizing dies.

Silvertp

[grvj]

Some years back, I had a .243 BLR - it was THE most accurate rifle I ever owned...but a pain to clean. I had many handloads but discovered that only full length sized reloads worked reliably.

Neck sized loads were inconsistent and once I had to tap out a fired case. The lesson learned?...only factory pressure loads for these type of rifles.

On your rifle, I would measure a fired case and a new case to get a feel how tight or generous the chamber dimensions are. If only factory loads are used and they stick, that would suggest a tight chamber and perhaps small-base sizing dies, as already suggested, are the next step.