Tikka T3 Ejection Issues

[Macht]

I posted this in the T3 thread, with no responses. I thought I'd try here to reach a larger audience:

Has anyone had trouble with ejected cases hitting their windage knob and bouncing back in to the ejection port? I had this happen a number of times at a match today, it ended up costing me points. If it matters, I'm shooting a 260 CTR in a Whiskey-3 chassis. If I work the bolt slowly, the cases eject normally with no issues. However, if I work the bolt quickly, like I would in a match, the cases will hit the windage knob and bounce back into the ejection port about 90% of the time. I am using a Bushnell DMR, which has a fairly large windage knob, in ARC M10 low rings. I tried switching to my Mark 6 3-18, which has a low capped windage knob. That helped, but cases still bounce back in about 30% of the time.

So far I've seen three suggestions that might help the problem:
- Shorten the ejector spring
- Bevel the extractor
- Get higher rings
I realize that shortening the ejector spring may lead to issues with slow bolt movement, but this is a match only rifle, so that shouldn't be a problem. Beveling the extractor seems like something I would only want to try as a last resort. Finally, I really like my cheekweld with the low rings, I don't think moving to higher rings is a good idea from that perspective.

Has anyone experienced this same problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?

 

[roggom]

Yes, Have this issue with my 7mm Mag. I just changed optics to one with a shorter windage knob. Sako did take this into consideration and the new T3x has a larger ejection port, however that does nothing to help. Considering you have a chassis higher rings should be a quick fix as you can always adjust the comb hight.

 

[Macht]

I might end up having to swap scopes and go to a higher set of rings then. I was hoping someone out there had played around with the ejector spring.

 

[MarinePMI]

I seem to recall a fix being out there that entailed rounding the corner of the extractor, causing the case to eject more to the right, rather than up into the windage knob...

 

[Macht]

I read something about that on another forum, but I couldn't find a detailed description or any pictures. It did seem like an option though.

 

[MarinePMI]

Pretty sure Chad LRI mentioned it on the Scout site. IIRC, it rounded the top corner of the extractor, so that as the case came off the extractor, it tended to roll out and down (vice out and up). Looked like a 10 min file job, but I've never done it, so can't be sure. Might give Chad a holler in the gunsmithing section...

 

[Macht]

I'll do that, thanks for the input.