New Flat Land Hunting Rig

savagelh said:
Well let's see it!
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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.
 
It could be possible the magazine isn’t quite seating deep enough. I installed one of the factory mag systems on a friend’s 700 and it took a lot of fiddling with the side notches depth to ensure the mag was properly positioned. That or the internal mag spring is weak.
 
Peecos said:
It could be possible the magazine isn’t quite seating deep enough. I installed one of the factory mag systems on a friend’s 700 and it took a lot of fiddling with the side notches depth to ensure the mag was properly positioned. That or the internal mag spring is weak.
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I wondered if it wasnt seating deep enough, how did you go about fixing that? Cause from what I can tell the only real way to do it and keep the mag tight in the bottom metal would be to sand away some of the stock so it sits that little bit higher up. The spring doesn't seem weak in the mag, lots of tension there.
 
hunter-4-life said:
Thanks guys. Prophet River had a "used" Remington 700 thats trued up, spiral fluted bolt, TT trigger chambered in 280 AI with an 24" IBI spiral fluted 8.5t pipe and wildcat stock. Weighs 6lbs on the nose, should be a nice rifle, it checked very box I wanted it to as far as weight, twist rate and aesthetics. It worked out good a buddy was rolling through there today anyway so he was able to pick it up for me, I should have it in my hands tomorrow sometime.

I also had him pickup a box of Federal 155gr Terminal Ascent and a box of Federal 168gr Berger factory ammo to sight in and just see what it likes. Hopefully it shoots good.
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.280 AI is a good cartridge... that is a nice score.
I am currently working up loads for a 7 PRC, to whack a moose this fall and PG next spring... I'd give you the details, but I am afraid Super Cub will shame me....
 
I bought a Remington custom built by a smith with a seemingly good reputation on this site. Had to tinker with it for more than a few hours and source scarce parts to get it to feed. Original owner (who hadn’t shot it ) contacted the ‘smith and was told to pound sand.
The guy is a machinist and no doubt would rather cut threads and chambers than do the fiddly trial and error feed work.
 
starvin said:
I bought a Remington custom built by a smith with a seemingly good reputation on this site. Had to tinker with it for more than a few hours and source scarce parts to get it to feed. Original owner (who hadn’t shot it ) contacted the ‘smith and was told to pound sand.
The guy is a machinist and no doubt would rather cut threads and chambers than do the fiddly trial and error feed work.
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I shot you a message regarding this issue.
 
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