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Harvey It is definately one of two things. 1. Fouling in the lead, and it can be extreme if its had some rubbish ammo down it. Once its fouled and left it can be hell to get them clean. After every shoot I immediately put a felt or patch through mine at the range and its easy, if I leave it an hour...

Harvey It is definately one of two things. 1. Fouling in the lead, and it can be extreme if its had some rubbish ammo down it. Once its fouled and left it can be hell to get them clean. After every shoot I immediately put a felt or patch through mine at the range and its easy, if I leave it an hour...

Colin wrote:Harvey, any chance you can get a picture of the rifle up, as I'm not to sure what the Walther international looks like.I know the KK match but not to sure on the international. Colin

I will have to wait until my daughter comes over next week.

This problem of roughness on the lands are normally when it's a new barrel, the age of this Walther suggests it's had a few thousand rounds down it, so most of the roughness I would have though is well worn away by now Colin, even though the rifle is an older model from the condition that it is in,...

When the chamber is cut there can be roughness on the lands. It will look like a fine tooth metal file. This is the part of the chamber that engraves the bullet when you close the bolt. As you can imagine, forcing the bullet to engrave 6 to 8 little metal files reguires a lot more pressure than if ...

Harvey,The bolt closes ok without a round in it, or does the bolt seem tight. It seems to be headspace or wrong bolt I would think, do you know anyone with a set of headspace gauges. Failing that it looks like a trip to a gunsmith I'm sorry to say. Colin Colin, the bolt closes fine without a round ...

I'm not aware of any chambered for .22 short but if it takes a .22 short OK that almost conclusively proves its a problem with the lead not the headspace. I'm pretty sure its simply a build up of fouling in the lead probably not been cleaned for 30 years before you got it, set to with a phospher br...

If like you say you have cleaned the barrel/lead it looks to be a headspace problem, or wrong bolt.A friends old walther kk was having problems with misfires and the Walther service guy at Bisley looked at the bolt and did what he could but did say spares for his gun were getting harder to source d...

You didn't say how old the Walther is, has this just started happening or has it been like this from new. Can you push the bullet in right up to it's rim, or is it tight to push home.If it's new it looks like the bolt headspace has been adjusted incorrectly. My Anschutz rifles bolts have the last 3...

Have you been using Eley ammo, I ask because the lube' they use can build up around the breech area where the bullet get pushed into the barrel.As you load some of the lube gets scraped off, this builds up overtime and the rim of the case sits on this and causes issues, it can go quite hard. Anothe...

sbrmike wrote:It may be the bullet profile. Your gun probably has a match chamber and some ammo may chamber hard due to the larger bullet profile. Try a target round or at least a different brand of ammo.

I have tried several different brands of match ammo. and all seem the same.

Hello, I have a Walther 22lr. The bolt closes extreemely hard with a live round. The chamber looks good and clean. How can I determine if I have a head space issue or what the problem might be? Harvey

Thanks for your response I am sure the problem you described is my problem. How can I locate triple- k Harvey

Any one still shooting one of these? I was until my magazine broke a spot weld. Does any one have a spare or know where I can get one? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks - - - Harvey