So I wrote about this issue during my review, but after looking at the problem again, I think I need some advice. This is my first custom action so never had this problem before. First the mag barely fits into the manners mini chassis, it has to line up perfect to go in and loading the mag is a task all in its self. During my first range trip I mainly single fed the rifle. When I used the mag, it was hard to strip the round off the feed lips. One the round cleared, it was smooth sailing. Today I decided to put the gun in my cleaning vice and see what was going on. See pics below. With a full mag I could not get the bolt to move the top round forward standing beside the gun. I had to get behind it a jam the bolt to get it to move. Once it moved the bold slowly pushed the round down the feed lips and I could see the scratches on the case. The bolt was not touching the lips at all. I went back and looked at my spent brass and saw the same thing with the ones that I had mag fed. I bought this mag because GAP (Jeremy?) told me that it was the mag they all run and that it was it the one that ran 100%. It is the long oal version. To be clear, I am not blaming GAP or their advice. Any ideas? I bought prime ammo for the Peterson brass, so I don’t want to carve it up every time I shoot and the effort to strip the round from the mag is ridiculous.
You can see the scratches in the shadows. They line up with the feed lips. Also this is the only mag I have right now.