Feeding

[ScoutMan]

After a range trip today, I took some snap caps for my Rem 660 in 308 to test cycling. The magazine holds 4 rounds. The first two rounds cyclied fine. The third jumped the magazine. I cycled the bolt normally.

Where do I start looking?

[Nobade]

Before worrying about it too much I'd try it with real ammo. Of course either at the range pointed in a safe direction or better yet with the firing pin assembly removed. If it does this with live ammo, take a look at the feed lips of the magazine and see if they need to be adjusted slightly to delay the release of the cartridge.

[ScoutMan]

Noblade,


Thanks for the advice. After reading your post and got out the Dremel and the Cratex polishing wheel and set to polish the feed lips. As you know the 660 Remington has a stamped metal magaziine.  A little polish on the ramps and the cartridges feed like Sh$t through a goose.

[gunnut69]

Polishing the feed lips is not going to solve the problem of a round jumping out of the feed lips. As Nobade advised the feed lips in the mag box need to be bent a bit to alter the retention/release of the round to aviod the 'jumping loose' again in the future. Removing metal via the mototool will even possibley make the situation worse..

[ScoutMan]

Polishing mught not have been the correct solution. The mag. on the Rem 660 is just a stamping. Polishing the edges iresulted  in a  proper seating of the mag. aganist the action. What can I say? It did the trick.