Working on getting some good photos. The lighting in my house sucks haha
Also, its having some feeding issues......went to my range to tinker with it today (cause what else would we do with a new rifle) and threw a cheap Vortex I had sitting here on top, loaded 4 rounds in the mag and it picked up the first shell no issues. 2nd shell it skips completely, I push the front of the bullet down a smidge and the bolt grabs it, 3rd shell is 50/50 same issue as #2, and soon as you eject the 3rd shell the 4th shell automatically pops up, the bolt doesn't need to grab it its just loose on top of the mag.
Right away I thought simple fix, I just have to tweak the mag "lips" and I had a pair of pliars in my truck so I grabbed em and tweaked what I thought it needed (in on the front "right" side to fix shell issue 2 and hoping it would maybe fix issue 4. No dice. I messed with it for couple hours this afternoon trying to get it to feed nice, tweak here n there on both sides. Closed them a bit, opened them a bit, close one side more than the other etc etc. and it wouldn't feed well with either the 168 Bergers or 155gr Terminal Ascent's. I have the BDL floorplate here that came with the rifle so I went home, swapped it out but I would have to dremmel the "mag" so the bolt will even slide across it at all. And I don't really want to run the hinged floor plate for the simple fact that the stock has the "inlets" on the side for the factory Remington 700 mag so it looks kinda dumb without the detachable mag in it. I did contact the original rifle builder and he said he would gladly fix it if I wished to send it to him but I thought I would try the simplest things first before mailing it 2 provinces away. Tomorrow is a new day and i'll maybe try again. Im kinda dead-set on running the factory detachable mag as like I said the stock has the sides cut away for it so it would look real silly without it.
Side note, this wildcat stock is LIGHT. Im shocked, when I took the rifle apart to swap bottom metals, I weighed the stock and it was 21oz and thats including a limbsaver recoil pad. So just over a 1/4lb lighter than an HNT26. Impressive to say the least.
