700 Remington long oal 223 feeding

[.222 ND]

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.

 

[alf]

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.

 

[.222 ND]

Sounds good. I’ve shortened that block before but never narrowed a follower, I wondered if that would work. Thanks for the info.