Rem 700 fail to extract

alberta tactical rifle said:
I think that the cons grossly out weigh the pros, to weaken the bolt by doing this modification makes no sense to me, if you were building a dangerous game rifle or something where your life depended on positive extraction, use a controlled feed action , rather than bubba ing up a Remington bolt :mrgreen:
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take it to a good smith, and have him check it over. There is always a possibility you have a cartridge case with a rounded inside edge, and that is why it failed to extract. I would unscrew the firing pin mechanism and then clean up that bolt, that way you can be sure that there will not be a bit of residue inside the bolt and firing pin area. Regards, Eagleye.
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You may in fact have a damaged extractor, I would suggest replace it with another factory extractor, it will probably last forever.
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It was reloads that it failed on but I made 50 with the same die setting in the same night and all the rest work fine. So I doubt its the headspace.

It could be a rounded case lip. I will give that a check.
 
Take some empty sized brass and cycle a few mags through the gun. If the empties extract well than chances are you messed up on the one reload.
 
If your having a failure with a factory stock rifle and a handload, the handload is the first thing I'd check. If it is indeed a failure with Rem's extractor then simply having it replaced would be the cheapest/best option. If it's worked for 10 years but broke now, I would just chalk it up to a small parts problem. I don't think I would change the entire extractor system because of one failure...one man's improvment might not be anothers and if I were purchasing a used rifle...a bubbed 700 bolt would turn me off right now. I saw a picture of a US solider in Vietnam using a Rem 700 in a sniper role and if Rem's extraction system was so bad, I think the armys amourer's would have been modifying these long ago or selected a different rifle.
 
As others have stated, do not install A Sako extractor the factory extractor is fine as is. I would have the rifle checked out, but don't expect any mysteries to be solved :( there are enough people on this board with experience and none has offered any miracle cures, my guess is the case is at fault since you said that a bunch of others cycled just fine. IMO

On a side note, it's pretty funny that Remmy extractors only screw up when someone is around or we are cycling the action to shoot at game :lol: I guess you can tell I like CRF :oops:
bigbull
 
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