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Feeding Short cartridges in a Long Action

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10 June 2010, 11:32
Pete Millan
Feeding Short cartridges in a Long Action
This is further to the Remington 700 headspace Thick/Thin lug discussion.

As I also have a Rem700 LA ADL, is it possible to put a barrel chambered for a short cartridge (say 243 Win) on it and expect it to feed?

Logic (again!!) tells me you would have to fit a shaped aluminium block in the back of the long ADL magazine to shorten it, put in a short ADL follower and you might be in business. Being a pushfeed the timing of cartridge release from the mag is probably less critical than for a CRF.

Anyone done this??


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10 June 2010, 16:37
Jerry Liles
it may feed just fine. I have a Rem 721 (long action) chambered for the .257 AI and if feeds just fine.

Jerry Liles
10 June 2010, 17:22
ramrod340
Never tried a 243 in a long 700. The MKX action is the same length for the 243 and 06. There is simply a spacer in the rear of the magazine box for the 243 & 308.


As usual just my $.02
Paul K
11 June 2010, 03:53
DannyH
I built a couple of 260 Rem's on mauser actions with no feeding problems.Fn's
11 June 2010, 23:16
Masterifleman
The short answer is, yes (probably). I believe the Army's M-24 chambered in .308 is actually a long action Remington.


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