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Difficulty in seating/removing Vudoo and L3 mags

Roslyn

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Running two Vudoo actions, one in an American Rifle Company Xylo and one in an MDT Elite chassis. I find both Vudoo and L3 10 round mags very difficult to seat and more difficult to remove. Once they are properly seated, both feed just fine, but extracting them is a project and not something to be done on the clock. Both chassis run my MDT centerfire mags perfectly when I have those actions installed, so presumably it isn't the chassis that are the issue.

Is this a known problem? Any suggestions how to correct it? Far as I can tell the mags jam up near the top shoulders in both cases.
 
I had a Vudoo Gen 1 mounted in an MDT LSS Gen 2 Chassis. I also put my Bergara B14R, early model with the
square cut in the bolt, into the same chassis. I never had any trouble with the Bergara in any way either in
the factory stock or in the LSS chassis. I ran the polymer and aluminum magazines in the Vudoo and the gun functioned
flawlessly in every regard. I'm not a Vudoo or Bergara fan boy either. I simply never had issues with either gun
in terms of function or operation. IE: Never had FTF, FTE, Mag issues, stove pipes, etc. Both guns were really very nice.
My B14R was steel and cost about $975.00. The V22 was $3300.00 as shown below. Not counting the Trijicon 5 - 50 x 56
scope. That was about $2600.00 at the time.

As far as loading the mag into the chassis, I never had any issue with them either. They pushed in and dropped out.


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With the xylo are you using the extended mag catch that arc recommends?

I'm using it (unmodified) and have no issues with vudoo mags (insertion or removal) with my 360.

I have added a small shim to the back some of the mags to take up a small gap between the mag and the release to remove play. However, mags that don't have it still insert and remove perfectly.