Cristensen Arms Mes 6.5 PRC Failure To Eject

[Fartrell Cluggins]

I bought a CA Mesa at the beginning of the year. I finally had a chance to get it to the range last weekend. It will partially extract the brass, but won't always eject it.



It was very accurate with 147 ELD ammo. That's a 1 inch dot.



I called CA. They told me that they had a bad batch of springs. They offered to send me the parts and let me replace them myself or to send a return authorization. I am not too handy, so I asked for the RA. That was Monday. We'll see how it goes from here.

 

[SoTxShooter]

Looks like a gun that is definitely worth fixing!

 

[Fartrell Cluggins]

Looks like a gun that is definitely worth fixing!

Yeah, I am very happy with that.

 

[Laelkhunter]

Could the brass be hitting the scope and bouncing back into the ejection port? The turrets look big in the photo, maybe the brass is hitting it.

 

[Fartrell Cluggins]

Could the brass be hitting the scope and bouncing back into the ejection port? The turrets look big in the photo, maybe the brass is hitting it.

No. The ejector plunger spring appears to be weak.

 

[JakeSCH]

Interesting. My new 300 WM does the same, I just have to open it "fast" to get it to come out...sounds like I need to give them a call.

Funny enough my 6.5 PRC is to strong and leaves a swipe mark on the cases when I close the bolt.

 

[Fartrell Cluggins]

They sent the return authorization right away. It went to my spam box. I shipped it out. It is scheduled to arrive at CA Monday. So far they have been very responsive and helpful.

 

[Viper]

Following...

 

[wannabemtnman]

I had the same situation with my Fierce Carbon Edge n 6.5 PRC after only 20 rounds through it, the spring on the ejector was getting hung up and was dropping the spent brass on top of the mag. Sent in my bolt and they fixed it and had it back to me within 2 weeks. Not ideal for what we spend on these new guns. Fierce said they had this happen with a handful of other guns, seems to be a select spring issue and sounds like it's similar with CA, which could make sense since they probably source parts from similar vendors.

Good luck with yours and hope it works out!

 

[swampthing]

I had a 708 mesa that would pull the brass out but wouldnt always clear it out of the action. It was hit or miss in whether it would fully eject out of the action.