Have a question about my remington 700 300 wsm

[Musket Man]

If the bolt wont close on FL sized brass it sounds like a headspacing or case length issue and possibally your chamber is to tight in 1 of these areas. You could try shortening a case a bit and see if the bolt will close. If you color the neck and shoulder of a case with a black marker and then try to chamber it you will be able to see where it is tight by where it rubs the marker off of the case. Is this a new unfired rifle?

 

[Topgun 30-06]

Smith said it has just a really small throat and the gouging of the brass is where the throat actually starts. I ordered a new custom made barrel for it and I should be good from there


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That may cure the problem, but why pay for a new barrel when it's the manufacturer's fault for selling an inferior product that won't even shoot factory loads. What would a person do if they had bought that gun and didn't reload like you do? I would presume they would take it back and let Remington fix it at their cost and that's still what I'd be doing if you're having to replace the barrel.

 

[kcaves]

That was a plan, but since I'm putting a suppressor on that gun, I might as well put a barrel on it.