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Originally posted by dpcd:
Yes, Remingtons use one size fits all receivers; so the feeding is controlled by the stamped sheet metal magazine box; remove it and bend the feed lips until it works.

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:
There is a way to cheat feed death with blunt bullets or bullets that hit high on the breech face in the 700. Remington certainly wouldn't approve, but you can put a heavy, 45 degree feed cone on the face of the bolt nose recess. That bolt nose recess is only there to protect you in the event that you want to do something silly like blow up the gun. You still need to leave a little bit of the recess or the bullets will stove pipe on the chamber face. Removing to much can make it feed even worse so it's a cut and try affair. More is NOT BETTER !

700 45 degree by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:
The cut is actually made all the way around Bobster. The barrel is spun off and simply held in the chuck of the lathe or preferably, set up on centers and run in a steady rest and make the cut with either a boring bar or form cutter. Care has to be taken to NOT take to much. You still need to deflect the round enough that it won't stove up on the chamber face. I have made this cut quite often in 700s chambered for the 375 H&H and the 458 Winchester to keep blunt nosed bullets from stopping against the barrel face. I have also done it quite regularly to 700s that are run with single shot followers that don't use the feed rails to guide the cartridge in.