Good point setting up both rifles for the shorter throat.
Started from scratch, box was flush and snug in the corners, seam was closed and bottom of the box level at the gap. A few jumped the rails yesterday so I wedged the front third of the box out a little.
Reassembled the parts and pulled the bolt, the bolt head pulled the follower to the rear and down. It felt like a lot of compression on the spring so I squeezed two of three bends and tried again, the follower stayed forward in the box when I pulled the bolt back.
I worked the spring a bit to keep the follower level and loaded four dummies, fed all slick. I repeated and twenty fed, fast or slow without a failure.
Not ten minutes of time starting at the start, thanks.
