Steyr rifle

[beerbelly]

I have a Steyr in .260 that is a tack driver, but this high dollar rifle has a cheap little plastic magazine that just will not feed a round into the chamber! So I  basicly have a high dollar single shot rifle!  Why a company would put  a piece of crap plastic magazine on a gun I just don't understand! But they have lost me as a customer!
                                                                 

[Rangr44]

Did it have the plastic magazine when you saw/bought it ?  Or, was the rifle displayed sans magazine, and it was added to the package when/after the sale ?

Steyr boltguns have had plastic mags at least since they replaced the M-S rifles in the early 1970's, so if yours is having a problem feeding/chambering, I'd take a hard look at both portions of the magazine latch - the part on the mag, and the part on the rifle. One or both may ned replacement.



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[beerbelly]

I checked the mag out and could find nothing wrong with it. I have found that if I only load three rounds in the mag, slide the top round forward about a quarter inch and load the mag with the bolt fully open it will feed those three rounds. Put the fourth  one in and it won't. But three is enough for me. Hell I usually only get one shot anyway!

[Empty Quiver]

Might be worth buying a new mag just to see if the problem lies there. Certainly wouldn't hurt to get in touch with the company to see if possible they have a fix.
 
A person gets so used to disappointment with service they don't even try any longer. Who knows?

[Luckyducker]

Never owned or fiddled with a Styer but from what I gather from your post it sounds like a weak magazine spring.  I would advise a new mag to see if that will fix it.  I have a Savage 111 that wouldn't feed because the cartridges would prematurely jump free of the feed lips (i bought the rifle used) and could tell someone had tampered with the magazine.  I installed a new mag and altered the feed ramp to a lower angle and had to file the guide flutes in the mag follower so that the cartridges hugged tighter into the feed lips, and after this the rifle feeds perfectly even when cycling very slowly. I wonder if the Sav has had a barrel change but who knows.

[Luckyducker]

In my total ignorance I didn't realize Styer uses a rotary magazine.  Rotary magazines do not last for long before the spring weakens and they stop feeding correctly, so as others have already said, I think a new mag is the first thing you should try.

[D Fischer]

Did you write a letter to Styer or did you want to post it here first?

[Stoneybroke]

Having owned several of the Steyr Mannlicher rifles, I can tell you that the problem is the PLASTIC magazine.  I always ordered extras mags with my Steyr rifles.  Big mistake people make with these mags is to leave them loaded during the off-season.  Long time spring compression is a bad idea.   Metal rotary magazines are very dependable.   The original Mannlicher Schoenauer metal rotary is superb and the savage 99 rifles almost as good..