Any one have any experience on how the TCU family of cartridges chamber from a Rem 700 ?
Can't find a gunsmith with a .25-223 reamer, but a few have the .25 TCU
Are you asking about how the TCU family of cartridges feed from the magazine? If you weren't asking about feeding from the magazine that you can skip the rest of this post.
In my experience it was difficult to get reliable feeding on a 7 TCU repeater that I built many years ago. It can be done but I don't remember all of the details of how I did it. I do remember that I removed the spacer block from the rear of a 223 magazine and then used a feed platform from a different caliber. To the best of my memory I recall that I happened to have a short action feed platform from a Winchester that I tried and it fed perfectly using it. The biggest problem is that I don't remember what caliber the feed platform was from. It had to be from one of the larger short action calibers though because it was long enough to fill most of the magazine box. The original 223 feed platform was too short to operate properly with the filler box removed.
So yes, it is doable but it will take a bit of experimenting to make it work. If you happen to know of a gunsmith with a box full of feed platforms it is only a matter of trying until you come up with the correct combination.
drover