i just bought a remington 700 sps in 300 wsm and i love it except when you put a bullet in the magazine the first one goes in good but the second one jams in their and if you trying and cycle it it scratches the brass really bad. any suggestions or anyone else have this problem??
rem 700 problems
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That is a reoccurring theme with fat cartridges in boltguns.....one of the disadvantages of the short mags. Ever see how effortlessly a .300 or .375 H & H feed.....its because of the long slender case and long sloping shoulder....they will be the next darling of the gun press...and everyone will rush out and by them....then the gun press will puff up std.soft point bullets instead of tsx/mxs/failsafe/partition....and everyone will rush out and buy them....blah,blah.
ben hunchak said:
Actually any of the Short and Super Short Mags that I have tried (just about everyone made today) and own, feed just fine and in most cases better than their long case counterparts.
This is because they are single stacked and line up perfectly with the chamber and barrel when feeding from the mag. There is less friction on the cartridge due to equal pressure on the sides of the case from the mag. And the shorter case has less distance to slide and less surface to bear on the shell under and the bolt above.
You actually should test and shoot some guns before you regurgitate an uneducated and false report on specific firearms...blah, blah....
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"with remington in dire straite"
care to elaborate?
care to elaborate?
Remington is now controlled by a investment company.I pull wrenches for a living,not reading balance sheets ,so I take this from some one who translated it.There was large pulling of money out of the firm a while back,then losses.He said things didn't look good.Sell your Remington shares now.Unless their importing business saves them.
At lest with Winchester ,Herstal (FN),a arms company owned US Repeating Arms.But not the Winchester name.You should get M-70s soon, made by Miruko to the same quality as they make the A-Bolt II s
At lest with Winchester ,Herstal (FN),a arms company owned US Repeating Arms.But not the Winchester name.You should get M-70s soon, made by Miruko to the same quality as they make the A-Bolt II s
mjcurry said:
I had a Ruger that I couldn't baby when feeding it ammunition, I had the be a acertive when putting one in the chamber. I finally took it to a gunsmith because it was a bugger to try and sneak one into the chamber. The gunsmith put it to rights and it fed ammunition as smooth as smooth can be.
All these factory rifles are a gamble when you buy them. You either get a good one or you don't. Quality control is non existent these days as far as I can tell.
I bought a Remington a while back that had feeding problems. That gun was sent to three different warranty gunsmiths and none of them fixed the problem. It became obvious to me they hadn't the desire or knowhow to fix the problem.
One told me the gun was feeding as good as it was ever going to and one asked me if I knew how to load a firearm.
In the end you're probably going to have to pay a good gunsmith out of your own pocket to get that gun fixed.
Wait 'till you get Remington customer service on the phone, that's when the fun starts.
I bought a Remington a while back that had feeding problems. That gun was sent to three different warranty gunsmiths and none of them fixed the problem. It became obvious to me they hadn't the desire or knowhow to fix the problem.
One told me the gun was feeding as good as it was ever going to and one asked me if I knew how to load a firearm.
In the end you're probably going to have to pay a good gunsmith out of your own pocket to get that gun fixed.
Wait 'till you get Remington customer service on the phone, that's when the fun starts.
I've had feeding trouble with almost all my Remington 700s--no problems with the model 7 or 600 for some reason... Not enough trouble to make them boat oars, but enough that I'd never consider bringing one on a 'hunt of a lifetime' situation--Africa, fly-in sheep hunt, NWT caribou, Alaskan brown bear, etc. Just no point taking the chance. They're great low-stakes rifles for whitetail and coyotes tho;-)
Ltbull01 said:Not in a Tikka T3 - the 300 WSM feeds smooth as the lake at dawn on a cool summer morning...But the Finns know all about building superior firearm products - not like Winchester and Rem!
Thats funny, my 700 SPS in 270 WSM, feeds like a dream... and how about that high quality plastic stock on the T3s and the quality recoil pad, yep, superior. Where can you find a replacement stock for it???? Lets see, no one makes them.... Great barrels and actions, too bad they couldn't put a quality stock on it.
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