I tried to call both Hawkins and Impact for 20 minutes straight with no luck so here's the message I sent both of them:
Hello - I've tried to call so I can troubleshoot over the phone but I have not been able to get through. I've got an issue with failure to eject. I'm running an Impact Precision 737 Titan and Hawkins Precision Hunter DBM. The rifle is chambered in 6.8Western. If I load three cartridges into the magazine and cycle the bolt without firing, the first cartridge will be extracted from the chamber perfectly fine and the ejector is strong enough to point the cartridge toward the port opening as the bolt moves to the rear. When the bolt reaches the rear, instead of the cartridge being ejected out of the port it simply stays in the action and sits on the round underneath. I have to physically remove the cartridge from the action and cycle the next round which does the exact same thing. Once the first two rounds are out of the way, the third round will chamber, eject and extract perfectly. At first I thought it was just because it was a complete cartridge and maybe the tip of the bullet was hitting the inside of the action, but it does the exact same thing while firing and attempting to eject spent casings. The first two fail and the third works flawlessly. I have confirmed that the bolt does not make any contact with an empty magazine while cycling the bolt. The magazine lips and follower are completely untouched by the bolt. I am thinking that the follower spring is too stiff and the pressure from the cartridges below are over riding the ejector and causing the casing to get pushed up rather than out the ejection port. Have you ever run into this issue? Is there any help or advice you could provide here? I have two magazines with this setup and both do the exact same thing.
