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Having a long chamber neck has ben a common problem for years. I have a old tang safety Ruger 77 22-250 Rem with a long neck so I drilled out the four spot welds that hold the rear spacer in the magazine ,moved the spacer back and soddered it in place . Now I can load a 55 Gr bullet with zero free bore. The Howa 1500 Thumb hole varmint 223 Rem rifle I got this year has slots cut into the magazine that holds the rear spacer. I will have to take a Drmmel cutting wheel and cut new slots in the magazine to move the rear spacer back so that I can load bullets at zero free bore. On some rifles I can not rework the magazine so I reload ammo with a long bullet jump and still find a good reload.

[QUOTE="kayo2, post: 711254, member: 7574"] Having a long chamber neck has ben a common problem for years. I have a old tang safety Ruger 77 22-250 Rem with a long neck so I drilled out the four spot welds that hold the rear spacer in the magazine ,moved the spacer back and soddered it in place . Now I can load a 55 Gr bullet with zero free bore. The Howa 1500 Thumb hole varmint 223 Rem rifle I got this year has slots cut into the magazine that holds the rear spacer. I will have to take a Drmmel cutting wheel and cut new slots in the magazine to move the rear spacer back so that I can load bullets at zero free bore. On some rifles I can not rework the magazine so I reload ammo with a long bullet jump and still find a good reload. [/QUOTE]

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