The correct way to chamber a bullet is to place the nose partially into the chamber, then close the bolt. This prevents the soft bullet head from being deformed

 

The ramp on my D is shaped a little differently from the ramp on my E. The E will feed a cartridge into the chamber smooth as silk without any damage to the bullet. The D will normally not feed unless you do as advised above......start the bullet into the chamber. It appears the ramps are shaped a little differently.

For what little it may be worth.

 

I finally took out my Winchester 52 D that I bought from jaquas. The gun is a heavy barrel and I believe it was made in the late 60s.

Anyway when I would drop a bullet in onto the ramp it would not feed into the chamber. It was almost like there was not a ramp or sonspiece was missing. Therefore I had to place each round in the chamber by hand which is very difficult with a Viani mount on it. Does anyone have any suggestions or have had this happen to them also?

I feed my herd by hand, 3 have the Viani mounts, I have no trouble doing that way, but I have feed several thousand rounds that way. The only problem I have with feeding my 52s, is being able to afford the diet of Eley Black, they seem to love so well.

George

 

I feed my herd by hand, 3 have the Viani mounts, I have no trouble doing that way, but I have feed several thousand rounds that way. The only problem I have with feeding my 52s, is being able to afford the diet of Eley Black, they seem to love so well.

George

Amen!!

I also feed directly into the chamber in all my guns....except of the 52E and a Suhl...they have me spoiled.

 

Shucks with my fat fingers and the tremor I have after chemo that's pretty much impossible for me. The range master had to do it for me and he had a very difficult time.

 

SEEWIN on this site makes a reproduction of the E feed ramp. Buy one and replace the one in your D.

 

The black box eley stuff is nice but expensive...have you tried the Norma match....all my 52 and 75s seem to love this stuff

 

I keep thinking I will pick up some just to try, as I am always looking for a good midrange ammo to practice with. Bur frankly, after trying many flavors and varieties of ammo in a goodly number of accurate rifles, I find the old adage about getting what you pay for to be true. Taking into consideration the lot to lot variations one expects, the more expensive the ammo, the better it performs.

I did run upon a lot of SK Standard once that shot extremely well, but unfortunately, I only purchased a couple of bricks. It's long gone.

 

greg and pump, I'm sure you've tried Lapua Center-X but just had to ask anyway. I've found it to work very well across a very wide variety of rifles at about half red/black box cost. I have to caveat though that I don't compete, except maybe with myself.

 

The last brick of Center-X I tried shot rather poorly - surely a substandard lot....in fact I had several lots of SK Standard at the time that easily outperformed it. All that proves is that quality can vary....not only from type to type but lot to lot.

I'm pretty fanatical about accuracy and have convinced myself that ammo is like guns in the respect that yes, you will find a cheap gun occasionally that shoots well and a particular lot of the cheaper ammo that shoots very well. But I'm not a particularly lucky person, so I have learned that when I want the best accuracy, I do best when I order small samples of a number of lots from a good quslity ammo like Eley Match.....and test them before ordering larger quantities.

But a good bit of my shooting involves needing competition level accuracy, so that drives my ammo selection to a large extent. It would be silly of me to pay that much for ammo to go down to the pond and knock turtles off logs. As with buying a gun, we should buy the ammo that meets our needs. So, I have pretty much settled into three categories of ammo:

1) Match grade ammo for competition - Eley match, etc.

2) Casual target shooting and practice - Eley Target, SK Standard, etc.

3) Plinking/hunting/pest control - CCISV, Federal Automatch, etc.

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I contacted Seewin who manufactures what I need. Thanks for the information.

 

yeah, given the nature of my shooting (informal) I won't expect miracles but I may see an improvement. I have other things such as establishing a cleaning regimen that I need to address which happens to be the topic of another thread I just submitted. At this stage for me, all parts are still moving.