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Rainshot: I am also puzzled by your contention regarding "scarring" by Remington 700's "in caliber 223 Remington"?
I have been shooting Remington 700's in caliber 223 Remington for over half a century now (54 years actually) and have NEVER had a "scarring" problem interrupt my shooting sports!
I just checked my inventory and I currently own and shoot 11 (eleven!) Remington 700's in caliber 223 Remington and to date no "scarring" issues have affected me what so ever?
The only Remington bolt action Rifle I own that uses LaPua brass is a Remington XR-100 though - and it also does not suffer "scarring" during its operation.
How does the "scarring" you endure with Remington 700's in 223 Remington affect your shooting?
I remember as a young man when Remington introduced the 223 Remington cartridge - it first came out in their Remington 760 pump action Rifles IIRC. A couple years later it came out in the bolt Rifles (again IIRC).
Long live the 223 Remington cartridge.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Varmint Guy: Just curious. the Remington 700 is a fine rifle but why own 11 in the same caliber?

Why not?

Lapua cases are the worst IN MY RIFLE. Yours may be different. Mine cut a grove across the rim of the case head when the bolt was crammed over. Also shaves brass.

Glad you found an easy solution.

I bought a new Model & years ago in 223. I bought for the action, never did fire a shot through it, but put a Schneider barrel on it in 221 Fireball. It would drop every case back in the action. I put up with it for a long time then finally looked into it. I found the bolt nose where it overhangs the extractor was not machined back far enough and wouldn't allow the case to flip out. It scared every case. I took my Dremmel and started grinding back the overhang, after all, it doesn't need to hang over it any more than retain the extractor. Sure enough that was all it took. Cases flip right out and with some fine tuning of the ejector, cases fall about 3" from the gun, not tossed into the next zip code.

LRI. They can do both the Sako and M16 as well as timing it or adding 2 extractors for ejection problems with it ejecting into the windage turret. LRI does nice work.

My recollection is that the 20 vartarg and 22 ppc extracted from the chamber just fine but we’re not ejected from the action before the install of the Sako extractor. I believe that is because of the 20 vartarg and 22ppc are quite short cartridges compared to a 223 or 308, etc.
I certainly would not have had Sako extractors installed if the factory ejector worked properly.
Hope this makes sense.

I’m one of those who had a 700 extractor extract itself from inside the bolt face, finishing an elk hunt for me. Had a Sako installed in the mid-90’s and it worked very well for me for another 20 years.

Have you avoided other 700s since then? If that had been my experience, I likely would have...

Thanks Aces if I can’t get the one I will contact them. Holland said to give him a couple of days as he’s busy as hell to see if he’s got one. I’ll probably order the one Craigster found any way and have Darrel install it as it never hurts to have something like it laying around.

I had a semi-custom 284 built on a SA 700 but added a Pacific Tool & gauge bolt that has a different type of extractor, much heavier.

Copy. Thanks.

PT&G uses a mini16 I think. I built a 220 Russian using one of their bolts. I also like the external bolt release. I think Remington could've modified the action some but never did. The Howa uses a mini 16 extractor and an external bolt release. It's a good action. The M700 is a decent action. I am just not a big fan of the extraction. Many of the later actions aren't timed very well and that could be improved on.

I talked to PT&G yesterday and they had the M- 16 extractor but couldn’t do the work. They also told me that they were going to be building Remingtons bolts and would have OEM extractors in October or November

Some different takes on extraction solutions other than the original 700.

11 mistakes in a row seems kind of...mental...