Stevens 200 .308 magazine configuration

[Jeffocrates]

I recently took a Stevens 200 chambered in .308, with a center feed magazine, to a training class and was having feeding problems during "rapid" bolt cycling. The bullet tip would jump too high to enter the chamber. The instructor looked at the rifle and thought that there was too much clearance between the magazine feed lips and the bolt head such that force was being applied too far from the center line of the cartridge. With the model 200, the mag height is determined by the "L bracket" that indexes a slot in the rear of the mag on one leg of the L, while the other leg is sandwiched between the rear of the receiver and the stock.

My question is this: is there a way to install the mag box, either the stock version or one of the many versions for Savage model 10s, so that I can get the magazine positioned optimally w/o the bracket? I think that bending the mag lips is a kludge.

Thanks for any input.