Anybody out there have any experience with one of these? This is the first rifle I've owned that was a bolt action with a clip-style magazine. (My other bolt actions had the tube under the barrel.) I bought this gun a few weeks ago, and from the start, I thought the magazine fit into the gun was rather sloppy and not designed very well. I'm used to precision machined parts (I am a machinist) that (when they meet specs) are a proper fit with each other. Sometimes you have a press fit, sometimes a slip fit, etc. The fit of the magazine into this gun was more like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole; if you make the peg small enough so it rattles around like a piece of gravel inside a hub cap, it will go, but it still doesn't fit. Even the first time I loaded it, I literally had to put upward pressure on the magazine in order for a round to be properly fed into the chamber with the bolt. After the first round was in and fired, the next four loaded reasonably well. I went through about 50 rounds the first time out. I thought the problem might be with the magazine rather than the gun, so I ordered two more magazines (which I would have wanted anyway if the gun worked correctly). The second time out with it, I had the same problem with all three magazines. However, the problem seemed to get progressively worse the more rounds I fired. Eventually, even the second, third, fourth, and fifth rounds did not want to feed correctly. On the last clip I shot, I had to eject the third and fourth rounds because they wouldn't go into the chamber, and the fifth round (though it went in with some effort) would not extract after it was fired. I had to pick it out with a screw driver. I took that gun back to Scheel's, and they had no qualms about simply exchanging it for another gun.
