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Open the floor plate and check your magazine spring. It could be something real simple like spring backwards. Slide the spring out of follower and floorplate. Turn spring around and reinstall.
 
Chinbullco said:
Open the floor plate and check your magazine spring. It could be something real simple like spring backwards. Slide the spring out of follower and floorplate. Turn spring around and reinstall.
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Yes it could be this or just maybe a weak spring. Does it do this when you have more than one round loaded?
 
Doesn't look like your cartridge is sitting level in the magazine .
If you OAL is that the cartridge will go down level, then the magazine lips need to be squeezed a bit in the front so the cartridge will sit level and the bolt can pick it up .
Cat
 
Alpheus said:
For the vast majority of factory rifles, the lands are quite far from touching the bullet when loaded to SAAMI specs. This is a safety margin, aka the "lawyer throat"

A good rule of thumb for seating depths when hand-loading is to have at least one caliber worth of the bearing surface of the bullet inside the neck. How much do yours have?
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What happens if you don't have the bearing surface inside the neck like you mention?
 
sharp shooter said:
What happens if you don't have the bearing surface inside the neck like you mention?
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They might not seat as straight in the case neck. Of course, this is a rule of thumb. If anyone can explain to me how to have one caliber of bearing surface inside the case neck of a 300 WM I would love to hear it.
 
BigUglyMan said:
They might not seat as straight in the case neck. Of course, this is a rule of thumb. If anyone can explain to me how to have one caliber of bearing surface inside the case neck of a 300 WM I would love to hear it.
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Ya, different for every gun/cartridge combo I think. For me to do that with my 22-250 I'd be almost a calibre width from the lands.
 
Well, it looks like it is turning out to be problem of the finished product being too long.
In order to counter this issue I need to set my bullets deeper, by about .010, and that is a problem for me.
I decided to reload to gain accuracy, among other things, and that feeding issue is going to prevent me from shortening the jump of my bullet.
I am open to suggestions on this one..
Do I shorten my OAL to address the feed issue, or see a gunsmith (which I would rather not do), will I be OK seating it deeper and trying to accommodate the load by powder changes?
Not looking for a bench rest rifle, just a consistent coyote caliber.
 
I would suggest more testing of the deeper seated bullets. And try different powders and bullets too. Bullets seated out to the lands are not always the most accurate loads either. They have to feed through the magazine first, seating depth is secondary.
 
Good advice

ryan said:
I would suggest more testing of the deeper seated bullets. And try different powders and bullets too. Bullets seated out to the lands are not always the most accurate loads either. They have to feed through the magazine first, seating depth is secondary.
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Thanks guys. So I guess I just keep shortening the things until they cycle, then start load development all over..
No problem!
 
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