I just got my new Stevens 200 in .223 and I really like the design of the rifle. It is my first one and the jury is still out as I haven't even gotten to shoot it yet but I think I'm going to like this platform.

When I purchased this rifle it was with the idea of converting it to 300 Whisper (300-221/300FB/300BLK) if I liked it but there is reportedly an issue with extraction using the very short case. To test this I fed an empty 300 Whisper case into the action (it will close in a .223 chamber) and tried ejecting it. The problem that I've read about is exactly what happened. The case was so short that it would turn too far and come off the extractor before clearing the action and fall into the action instead of ejecting from the rifle.

Is there a fix for this? From what I've read on quarterbore this is a common problem with several rifles and only a few designs with different types of extractors work reliably but I wanted to run it by the experts here to see what you had to say before I scrap the idea. FWIW, even if I do have to scrap the 300 Whisper idea I'm almost certainly keeping the rifle. It will most likely get changed into something different, though I don't know what yet.