I do have a question about what stops the forward motion of the operating rod.
As long as it's safe, functional, and accurate that's all I care about. I realize I'm losing about 100 fps but the deer around here will never notice a difference. I found another sweet spot at 45 grains and that's what I settled with. I dropped the charge of RE 15 powder down 3 grains and started working up. When I was looking at the bolt face, I noticed a hairline crack going thru the center of the extractor and called my gunsmith and I bought the correct extractor and replaced it myself. Everything was working great up until the 130th shot from the stiffer load. I had already polished out the chamber so I knew that wasn't the problem. Upon dissassembly I was checking everything. I fired 130 of these loads through it and then started having the same problems you experienced with the extractor. I was running 47 grains of RE 15 and everything was looking good (no real noticable pressure signs). I had the same thing happen to my m100 a few months ago. I've always heard you should load the winchester model 100 like it wsa a "service model M1A" so your load should be just fine.
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