Ejector in Stolle bolt

[VinceB]

Guys,
I'm contemplating fitting an ejector into a Stolle bolt with 308 bolt-face.
Any tips? Anything I need to watch out for?
Thanks in advance
Vince (UK)

 

[Gene Beggs]

Guys,
I'm contemplating fitting an ejector into a Stolle bolt with 308 bolt-face.
Any tips? Anything I need to watch out for?
Thanks in advance
Vince (UK)

In my opinion, don't do it! I had two nice RBLP Stolle Panda's and decided to have ejectors installed. Big mistake! In a benchrest rifle, ejectors are more trouble than they are worth, but of course, some will disagree.

The coned-bolt Panda without ejector is wonderful, trouble free and fast just as it is; one just needs to learn how to feed it. Simply open the bolt, go to the port with a loaded round and insert it in front of the fired case, flip the fired case out on the bench as you withdraw your hand and close the bolt; you're ready to shoot and have wasted no motion. It's just as fast as shooting with an ejector and less distracting because you will not be worrying about the fired case rolling off the bench. With this method, you have complete control and will never have to worry about tinkering with those blankety blank ejectors!

FWIW

Gene Beggs

 

[alinwa]

Thanks to you Gene for your clear explanations (and also thanks to Boyd Allen for his dogged persistence in explaining this procedure to me ) I'm now learning this method......


Now..... Do you go "over the top" with the loaded round and flick the empty out from under??? Letting the bolt push the loaded round home???

Or do you actually insert the new round into the chamber (as you say, "in front of") while flicking out the old?

I think this might be a function of bolt diameter. I'm using a Nesika/Borden and it's currently got a 6X47L barrel on it. It's perty full up with the two big cases in the hole!

thanxal

 

[VinceB]

Gene,

Thanks for your comprehensive reply.

I actually shoot a dual-port BAT chambered in 220 Beggs at 100 yards but the Stolle is a 1000 yd benchgun chambered in 6-284!!

Best wishes
Vince (UK)

 

[JD Mock]

Shooter preference.

When Bart Sauter told me that he was going to ejector rifles in 2009, I asked why. He is one of the fastest and smoothest with the RB/LP that he shoots now. He said that he is almost as fast as the ejector users, but he has to work much harder.

I have used the RB/Lp with and without ejectors, and I prefer the ejector models. Good shooting....James

 

[Pete Wass]

If you do this

Guys,
I'm contemplating fitting an ejector into a Stolle bolt with 308 bolt-face.
Any tips? Anything I need to watch out for?
Thanks in advance
Vince (UK)

either cut the bolt face deeper or have a SAKO type extractor installed in the bolt. If you look at some of the other makes that when ordered with ejectors they have the SAKO type extractor. Other makes have a deeper pocket in their bolt face. I think this allows the case to remain on the bolt until it reaches the port. I believe with a shallower bolt face pocket the cases often fall off the face once they enter the bolt lug chanel.

I switched to RRR's a couple of years ago so I wouldn't need to handle empties. I have struggled to make my rifles eject reliably though. I recently purchased a RB,LP,RE which promises to be a better solution. An important thing to do if you go the ejector route is to de-tune the ejector so that it only "flops" the case out of the action. You don't want to be chasing them.


OOPS! sorry, I should have read al the replies before I answered this.

 

[Al Nyhus]

Now..... Do you go "over the top" with the loaded round and flick the empty out from under??? Letting the bolt push the loaded round home???

Or do you actually insert the new round into the chamber (as you say, "in front of") while flicking out the old? thanxal

With my RB/RP Panda I just pull the bolt back, put the loaded round in the port with the right hand (ahead of the fired case...since it's still hangin' on the boltface ala' the extractor), give the loaded round a flick foward with my index fingertip, flip the empty off the boltface with the index fingertip, and close the bolt.

On my RB/LP Kodiak, I do the same thing but use my left hand.

The RB/RP setup is much smoother that the RB/LP for doing this...at least for me.

The more I shoot a RB/RP setup, the more I prefer it to a RB/LP. -Al

P.S. The thing about shooting fast is...you better be able to stop fast also.