Rem 700 ADL/Classic won't feed

[bluebayou]

I have had continuous problems with this rifle feeding.  It is bedded in an old Classic, blind magazine stock.  The barrelled action is from an SPS.  The problem is that the rear of the spring follower and thus the rear of the cartridges angles down.  When I close the bolt the bolt passes over the cartridge.  This is a pretty consistent problem, but if I have 4 in the magazine then the top one normally feeds, the next one is normally when the problem starts. 

My thoughts are that the bedding might be too high, but the rifle is a tack driver, I mean IT (not me) is spooky accurate.  I don't want to tamper with the bedding job. 

I tried putting a shim (strip of fridge magnet) under the mag spring and it still didn't feed.  Was thinking that there wasn't enough tension under the spring because of possible high bedding.

Is the spring shaped correctly?


Why do the cartridges tip nose up? 

[Fred M]

Looks to,me like your spring is upside down.

[bluebayou]

My head will explode if that is all that is wrong.

[bluebayou]

Fred, you are my savior.  I feeds fine now.  I am humbled to say that I have had feeding problems with this for over a year.

 

[Keith L]

So, hows the head?

[bluebayou]

The miracle of duct tape............

[gunnut69]

I had an acquaintance bring over a Winchester 88 that was fairly consistently jamming.  So much so that he had bought it for a song from another local who had had so much trouble with it that he just got rid of it. The mags are disassembled through the top and when I took it apart it was obvious the spring was reverse front to back. Put it back together correctly and it hasn't jammed since..

[Fred M]

bluebayou.

This is quite a common mistake. I am glad I could help. Sometimes a wrong
mag spring is installed which will give trouble to no end.