Rem 700 Mag Extractor Help

[Orange Dust]

on the phone he mentioned the rivet....if you look at last picture it looks like the round part(rivet) is scraping the rim of the case. when bolt it turned its only scraped 90 degrees like the exact motion of the bolt.....Hmmm might be on to something.

Winner winner chicken dinner. The rivet on the extractor isn't ground down enough. You can fix it easily yourself with a Dremel. I did. Must be fairly common. I've seen it on several RUMs. Or maybe it was just one guy at Remington did them all that way.

 

[Orange Dust]

Stick a case in the bolt outside the rifle and you can easily see what you need to do with the Dremel.

 

[WSMDRT]

Good to hear i just picked it up and am heading back to gunsmith this week anyway. Ill get him to sign off on it again. Other than that the thing is a dream!

 

[hydehunter]

last I heard the extractors are like chickens teeth to get now, better to have an m16 extractor installed by LRI, imho

 

[bigngreen]

I used to replace new rem extractors like candy, very common issue!

 

[Bob Wright]

I have same action (300 rum too) and had same problem. Went with M16 extractor. It was a RR s/n prefix and quite common.

 

[Muddyboots]

The extractor was replaced at one point in time, incorrectly. Remington extractors can be quite fussy and aftermarket versions may not have tensile requirements to function as new. I had to replace one on a standard LA and handed off to my smith since the tensile strength was giving me fits. He ended up heat treating and carefully resetting in bolt face. Works flawlessly now. My smith feels unless OE part from Rem, he had to heat treat to get aftermarket to work correctly.

700's do not have a Robust extraction system and if you hit too high of pressure and get web expansion on case, it may not extract the case. Pretty much well known deficiency in the 700 system.

Can't really see for certain, but looks like web ring may also be involved.

I wonder if Rem improved this on new 700's?

 

[Boe]

Can it be fixed or needs replaced?

Replaced

 

[turnerfarms2011]

If I was you I would go with the m16 upgrade, I am in the process of getting an upgrade myself I was working with short action customs on doing one for me until they found my bolt was about to break clean off.

 

[Will Gray]

PTG can make you a new bolt with an M-16 style extractor: problem solved. I bought one and the headspace did not change at all from the factory bolt to the PTG bolt.

 

[Mike Matteson]

I am having a 6mm/280AI being built. I had purchased a used Rem 700 LA for the action. The Smith started to test fire it, and something went wrong with the ejector broke. Whoever owned it before did something to the bolt face. The Smith is doing some type replacement on the bolt. I don't fully understand, and I am not in the area presently to see what being done to correct it. So that what you get buying a used rifle sometimes. So there some type of upgrade to the bolt ejector system. If nothing else at lease there new 700 Rem bolt action on the market now.

 

[Allen Kitts]

Checking in on this one I am having the same issue with a 375 Ultra Mag in a model 700. haven't done anything with it yet.

 

[Allen Kitts]

PTG can make you a new bolt with an M-16 style extractor: problem solved. I bought one and the headspace did not change at all from the factory bolt to the PTG bolt.

What is PTG

 

[WSMDRT]

I'm headed there tomorrow and in think this first correction he's to take care of since i just picked it up and it was a complete build custom barrel bare action etc. And get it shooting again. Then I'm going to ask what replacement and parts cost on extractor if i was covering it going forward and go from there. I was really looking forward to shooting it since weather is about turned here. But guess I'd rather get it right and have it working long term then getting into summer and have to mail bolt off then.