Perhaps the Dumbest Question...

[19zip]

Gary Eliseo's R5 6BR

http://www.6mmbr.com/gunweek074.html

 

[6BRinNZ]

Phil - is this for a bolt action or AR style?

I bought a Howa in .308 and re-barrelled it to 6br (Howa supreme varminter). I placed single rounds into the mag and shot that way...didn't modify a thing...

Possibly the mag would feed fine if you pushed the bolt forward via the bolt shroud rather than using the bolt handle...thats what I did anyways and I can't recall having any issues...was only placing a single round in at a time though.

I used it varminitng and f-classing...75 v-max for varmints and 95Berger vld for f-class.

This is for a bolt action. I am really surprised you could push a single 6mmBR round into the internal mag and the round was picked up and chambered. Do I understand this correctly? If so, I wonder how many rounds you could load before it acted up..., if at all?

I don't know enough about bolt actions to know why there is any difference between pushing the bolt closed via the bolt handle or the bolt shroud. I would a round loaded by using the bolt handle.

Phil

yes this is correct...your question is my point...I never tried it but I suspect it would be ok.

Working the bolt entirely with the handle means its possible to cant the bolt slightly...pushing from the shroud means the bolt slides forward more squarely.

With respect to extraction I had zero issues - I ended up taking the ejector (I know ejector and extractor are different...point is no matter the combination I had no issues extracting) out as out varminting the precious Lapua brass could get lost...the cases always came out with a very slight "flattening" on one side of the case mouth with it in.

YMMV