misfires

[K.WHIT]

Im having trouble with misfires. in a 30-06 cva. I have tried rem. and cci primers.  I can take same bullets and shoot them fine in my rem.7400

[Don Fischer]

Take the bolt apart and clean it out good. Otherwise, don't touch the primers with your fingers!

[res45]

Thats the single shot break open style rifle I'm assuming,sound like your not getting a good enough primer strike.  Either the barrel is not fitted correctly to the action leaving to much space between the chambered round and the firing pin or the barrel is correct and the firing pin protrusion isn't correct.  Couple things, have you tried it with factory loaded rounds to see if it does the same thing,and does it do it all the time with either reloads or factory ammo,if so I would call the factory you may just have a factory defect.

[huntswithdogs]

I'm gonna throw this out there, but do ya have a hammer extension on the Optima? Encore's were bad about not liking those extensions and causing light hammer strikes. I think I've still got my old one in a drawer somewhere. After removing it, my Encore started going off everytime I pulled the trigger. Before removal, firing was every once in a while along with a lot of cussing and head scratching.

Another thing, are you cleaning and squaring yourprimer pockets? Possibly cutting too deep? Just a couple of thoughts....


HWD

[davem270win]

If the above advice doesn't work, you might also try Federal primers.

[quickdtoo]

If changing primers doesn't help (CCI are among the hardest primers), please contact Mark at BPI as you were shown in the CVA forum, the Optima Elite has been known to have issues with failures to fire, I sent mine back for repair free of charge along with a free trigger job, they replaced the barrel with one that has the late style forend stud, although it seemed to shoot fine with factory ammo, just misfired with handloads using Rem 9½ primers, headspace was fine, so I don't know exactly what the problem was, could be a common issue with the transfer bar. 

Tim

[K.WHIT]

The rifle has been sent back to cva. It shoots factory ammo ok with hand loads  its about 50  50  all i do is clean the primer pockets  thanks for all the info.

[stimpylu32]

Just a thought but are you FL sizing or Neck sizing ?

If FL sizing , you may be bumping the shoulder back too far and causing a mild headspace problem .

stimpy