re bbl help

[jghuwe]

I have a 12 fv that was in 204 ruger. I bought a 22-250 bbl and bolt face. Headspaced and the bolt closes fine. I have a dummy round, oal is correct, it will not feed off the mag into the chamber. Do I need to change the mag or am I missing something else? If I seat the round on the bolt face in the extractor and close it all is well. Did I reassemble something wrong with the bolt??? Can't figure it out.

Thanks!

[Hotolds442]

You'll need to either change the magazine box or manipulate the feed lips to allow the loaded rounds to feed properly.

[jghuwe]

So open them up? Thanks for the help.

[Hotolds442]

Start by opening them up at the front first, a little at a time.

[J.Baker]

You need a new magazine housing. There are different magazine housing for different round families for a reason - the rounded ribs or channels pressed into the sides of the magazine housing are specifically placed and sized to ensure proper feeding with that size/family of cartridges. .204 and .223 use the same magazine housing, but the .22-250 falls into the .308 family of cases and is larger in diameter requiring a different magazine housing.

Yes, if you work at it long enough and bend/tweak it enough and in enough different places you might get it to work so-so, but you're better off just getting the right one and saving yourself the headaches of a lot of trial and error.

[GaCop]

Sound advice