I have a Remington Model 700 7mm Rem. mag that is giving me a problem. After firing it, I am having problems getting it to eject the casing. The casing is sticking inside the chamber and its hard to get it to grab the casing and eject it. I thought maybe it was the ammunition so I bought two different brands and no matter the brand, the casing sticks in the chamber after firing. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? Thanks.

Dirty chamber?
Broken extractor or spring?

It shouldn't be a dirty chamber. It is a new gun.

Clean the hell out of it, lube it sparingly and try it again. Every one of my new rifles gets this done before it ever hits the range. New does not mean it's clean.

Model 700's have piss poor extractors. Unless kept clean, they fail. Some times they fail anyway. If cleaning it does not fix the problem, upgrade the safety to a SAKO type or, better yet, upgrade the whole rifle to something else.

You could have a burr in the chamber, that is locking in the fired brass. Seen it before...look for scratches on the spent cases.

Put a pirate sticker on the stock. That'll turn it from a POS into a great rifle instantly.

Yep. Ran into that on a friend's rifle (also brand new). Chuck a brush in a drill, wrap it with 0000 steel wool and run it in the chamber.

I havent ran into that in quite a long time.... BUT, i have had a wthby and a rem 700 do this (a freind also had a 700)..... sent them back adn they "polished the chamber" and that was all it took. Easy for them, a bitch for any of us normal folk. I would send back for them to do and you will have it whipped.

Way more hassle to ship then polish the chamber.

My buddy polished his chamber with steel wool, wrapped around a brush, and attached to the short section of a cleaning rod. He then stuck it in his cordless. It worked.

I would contact Remington and let them deal with it.

Try cleaning out any brass shavings under the lip of the extractor first.

Remington 700 extractors are notoriously crap. Just look at homw many SAKO etc. extractors there are available for them....my gunsmith keeps them in stock!

Huh. Odd that I haven't seen one that's "crap" yet. As many rifles as the big green manufactures, I wouldn't be surprised if one got through quality control that shouldn't every now and then. But to use the word "notoriously"? How many have you had or personally witnessed?

I'm not a fan of Sako extractor conversions, either.......and yes......I do have one. Some do M16 extractors as well.

yea, somebody should send the memo to the military and LE that they should all dump the REAL WORKING M700/M24s for mausers/M70s

If you're in over your head, call Remington and send it back to them. I know several things I'd check, including chamber and extractor/plunger tension. All free and clear of debris? May be dirty chamber? Check for burrs and marks on cases as has been suggested. Any decent smith can disassemble the bolt in a few seconds and diagnose all of the above. I know our local wouldn't charge for it unless he found something that needed more than a spring or light tweaking.

you just proved my point - the SAKO and the M16 extractor replacements are so universal because the stock 700 extractor is dogvomit [bleep] - personally have seen it 3 times. (out comes me with a cleaning rod...).

interesting you should say it is a 7mm Mag - 2 of the rifles I saw the broken extractor in were 7 Mags....

Interesting to me, too.

I've got an early KS 7 mag here with one end of the extractor broken loose, supposedly a very low round count rifle. I've been shooting it fairly regular with one rivet holding the extractor, just haven't got around to having a new one put in yet. Whoopie.

Didn't prove your point. Gunsmiths do it because it makes them more money. It's not a necessary conversion unless the boltface is opened up. You go ahead and do it.....I'll keep not doing it. None of my 700's have failed and I've had lots and lots of them. I guess I'm the only Remington shooter that hasn't had a supposedly "notorious" problem.

I have a 700 in 416 Taylor that I had to use a hammer to open the bolt one time, but the extractor pulled the case out. The problem was that I used pull-down IMR4895 and I found it was faster burning than new production IMR4895. So lots of pressure and the bolt wouldn't open. Never personally had a Remington extractor fail to extract.

Try cleaning out any brass shavings under the lip of the extractor first.


Yeah that!!!

+1 been there and done that.....

Skull and crossbones I think is what you meant but yeah we got it.....

I have a Rem 700CDL 7mm Rem Mag that did exactly the same thing first time I used it.
After firing a round I could lift the bolt easy enough but couldn't pull it back to eject the case. I inspected a few fired cases and could see longitudinal scratches just above the case belt.

I bought a piece of dowel and tightly supa-glued a 25mm strip of 600 W/D sandpaper around one end,waited for it to dry, covered it in Rem oil and lightly turned it around the rear portion of the chamber (it was a tight fit) It fixed the problem in a few minutes.


I've fired several hundreds rounds in that rifle now and never had a problem.

I had an original XCR in 7mm Rem Mag do the same thing. Brush with 0000 steel wool did the trick. After that, it quit marking up the brass and I didn't have to push cases out of the chamber.

Here's a little tip: Just because it's a "new" gun does not mean it's perfectly clean.. ANY new firearm should first be cleaned before it's shot.. Otherwise you have no idea if there's some dust, grit, (whatever) sitting in that chamber or bore and it's simply prudent to ENSURE there's nothing in there before you fire it.

Second - M700 extractors are the most often part failing in that model. Either breaking, improper tension or just plain wear, that part is the one most often replaced - and I get these in for that exact reason several times/year..

Eliminate one variable - clean that chamber first. Wrap some steel wool around a bronze brush that'll fit snugly in the chamber, oil it up and use a high-speed drill for about a minute. Remove, clean and inspect.. It should look like a mirror finish in there..

Now test fire. The shells should come out easily.. If the extract still slips over the rim, then take a good hard look at that extractor. Is it split? Is there a piece missing? Does the lip not protrude fully into the bolt face?

If yes to any of those, you can send it back to Rem (and it'll take 3-4 weeks to get it back) or you can take it to your local smith for a fix - which may take a day or two..

Up to you..

I'm not having any problems extracting a unfired cartridge, just fired cartridges. I took a look at it last night and it is definitely leaving a long scratch on one side, so apparently it has a burr in the chamber. I am going to try the steel wool trick and if it doesn't fix it, I'll send it back to Remington.
By the way, I've owned a pile of Remington Model 700s and I've never had any problems. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with one.

New gun does not equal a clean gun. Every new rifle, even new to you rifles, should be taken apart, cleaned and inspected to make sure everything is snug and clean.

I had a M700 270wsm. I had to have 2 extractors replaced after a total of about 50 rounds of shooting. I traded that gun off. I am now having issues with my M700 260. I have shot that gun 100+ times, but now when I slowly pull the bolt back when I want to catch the brass when bench shooting... it drops the empty case nearly every time inside the gun before ejecting it. I have had Remington M700 rifles for years but I am getting tired of extractor issues.