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700 Remington long oal 223 feeding

Anyone know of any longer follower and springs that are set up for a longer than normal 223 or 6x45 shooting heavy bullets? I’d like to shoot 80’s out of my 223 without seating them to deep.
 
Depending on how long you need to go, you can take out the spacer in the back of the mag box, and replace it with a 1/4" thick piece of aluminum, and still use the factory follower. You can glue it or I generally rivet mine in place.

Because I needed longer than that, I took out the spacer completely, and narrowed a factory 308 sized machined follower enough to slide in the 223 mag box w/o binding. Works great and I can get 6 rounds down plus 1 in the chamber if I want to load it to the max.
 
Sounds good. I’ve shortened that block before but never narrowed a follower, I wondered if that would work. Thanks for the info.
 

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