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Bullets. They're bullets. You mean bullet heads? Damn Sangria... Happy Thanksgiving fellas and great buck aalph!
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When new, I found it best to load the rounds in the middle of the mag box for feeding to be 100% reliable. While hunting, I would leave the three round down, and pull out the one in the chamber & put it into my pocket. I noticed by the end of the third day, the top round in the mag box had slid back part way, making the bolt hang up a little. Once I slid it forward, all was good.
So this prompted me to dig around the parts bin to remedy the situation when I got home, and in there I found a long action machined style follower, and a spacer block from a 223 mag box. I had to tweak the spacer a bit, and then attached it to the rear with a pop rivet. After a little cyphering, I determined where to shorten the follower and proceded to get after it with the hacksaw. A little deburring with a file and it fit like a pocket on a shirt.
Last step was to put Humpty Dumpty back together again and give it a test drive.......home run.....![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/PmTGDoF.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/VMV9K4d.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/73lk9c8.jpg)
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Great buck Aalf!!!
What's that on the butt stock holding yer calibers?
I meant cartridges...;) Call 'em whatever you want, I'll just call them deadly.....ha ha.... Anyhoo, it'd be a neoprene Beartooth Stock Guard....Imma fan......
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Nobody listens to that ol' bag lady...... Ha! Poor, poor Poobs.... 
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Nice buck Al
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Great Buck aalf, congratulations
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That's a good one aalf........congrat's
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Thanks all.....
The 700 long action mag box is 3.700"....the installed 223 spacer measures .450"....giving me a 3.25" mag box length.
My loaded rounds are right at 3.00", leaving me a quarter inch of leeway.
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Thanks all.....
The 700 long action mag box is 3.700"....the installed 223 spacer measures .450"....giving me a 3.25" mag box length.
My loaded rounds are right at 3.00", leaving me a quarter inch of leeway.
aalf Quick question. I've installed a spacer in the mag box and I'm still struggling to get my LA 6.5 PRC to feed. Did you install a different follower spring after you shortened the follower or use a different spring? If you used a different spring what type did you use? Watched your video, nice job....slick feeding! rookie
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The 700 long action mag box is 3.700"....the installed 223 spacer measures .450"....giving me a 3.25" mag box length.
My loaded rounds are right at 3.00", leaving me a quarter inch of leeway. Quick question. I've installed a spacer in the mag box and I'm still struggling to get my LA 6.5 PRC to feed. Did you install a different follower spring after you shortened the follower or use a different spring? If you used a different spring what type did you use? Watched your video, nice job....slick feeding! Thanks...... I just used the original spring, but I may have switched around, as the long side was hanging over the back of the follower. The 1st thing I do to any action, is polish/round off the edges of the feed rails. No more scratched brass, and the rounds make a slicker transition out of the mag box. I generally polish the feed ramp a bit with a Dremel as well. These 2 tricks are the start to better feeding. After that, you have to address what exactly is going wrong. Some setups, you can't dilly dally working the bolt, you just have to go faster for more consistent feeding, as in 30-30 lever actions......
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The 700 long action mag box is 3.700"....the installed 223 spacer measures .450"....giving me a 3.25" mag box length.
My loaded rounds are right at 3.00", leaving me a quarter inch of leeway. Quick question. I've installed a spacer in the mag box and I'm still struggling to get my LA 6.5 PRC to feed. Did you install a different follower spring after you shortened the follower or use a different spring? If you used a different spring what type did you use? Watched your video, nice job....slick feeding! Thanks...... I just used the original spring, but I may have switched around, as the long side was hanging over the back of the follower. The 1st thing I do to any action, is polish/round off the edges of the feed rails. No more scratched brass, and the rounds make a slicker transition out of the mag box. I generally polish the feed ramp a bit with a Dremel as well. These 2 tricks are the start to better feeding. After that, you have to address what exactly is going wrong. Some setups, you can't dilly dally working the bolt, you just have to go faster for more consistent feeding, as in 30-30 lever actions...... aalf thanks for the additional information...do appreciate it. I haven't given up on making the BDL bottom metal work...yet...close, but not quite ready to! thanks again! rookie
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Looking damn good there, damn good. I want one, but doubt I would use it much here in Alaska, So many rifles, so little time, so old, woe is me......
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