I have a Model 12 VLP DBM. My Hunting buddy bought the Model 12 BTCSS. Both of these rifles have the detachable magazine, they are both 223's. We both hate these magazines, they are hard to extract, hard to load, really hard to get seated again, and hard to load from the top one at a time. We are both considering switching back to Remington's or older staggered feed Savages. We both like these rifles a lot except for these mags. Does anybody else have a problem with these? I have looked at the Single shot followers from SSS, but I'm not sure if these will help. The feed lips are in the stock so any mod made to the magazine will have to go under the feed lips, it still looks like a pain to load from the top. Has anybody used these to solve this problem? Are the larger bolt face cartridges any easier to use, like the 22-250?