Marlin 983T Ejection

[jsoukup]

Last week before heading out to the deer lease, I bought a Marlin 983T 22mag and took it out to the range. With the cheap iron(plastic) sights, it seemed decent as far as accuracy, but it doesn't eject reliably. It doesn't seem to matter how hard you try to slam the bolt back, about every 3rd empty round hangs, and the last round (empty or not) will hang.

I've looked at the schematic, but there are so many variations on this basic design, it's hard to tell what's going on. It looks like there should be some type of ejector, but only on the magazine fed models, not on the tube fed.



It looks like the silver part is worn or mal-formed. I haven't even put 50 rounds through it yet, and I hate to send it back to Marlin already. Any suggestions for a fix?

Also, has anyone put a Williams WGRS-54 Guide Receiver Peep Sight on a Marlin 22 mag? How did it work? I was considering this against using something like a 2x or 4x compact shotgun scope.

[bscman]

I have several of their bolt action rifles with the ejector spring...My only tube fed marlin is a Model 60, and it DOES have an ejector spring as well.

From the pictures, it does look like there should be a more defined "shelf" for the rim of the shell to strike, and be ejected. I'm thinking the same as you, the metal piece (silver) is mal-formed/damaged and the fired rounds are not striking it solidly enough to be ejected--of course, this is just an assumption since I"m not familiar with THAT rifle.