longnkrnch wrote:Thanks Hoot, my next venture will most likely be the standard 250 FTX. I'll plat with the XTPs some more but might just develop some of those for 50 yrd hog rounds. I also had a problem with the feeding. Loading 3 in the mag and the second would not fully chamber. If I hit the mag release and dropped the mag, the round finished chambering.
You need to perform the classic "lip tweak". If you didn't see my reference to it recently in a thread. Measure the distance between the lips at a marked spot. Stand the magazine up on the lip end on a hard, preferable smooth, even slick surface. Grasp it firmly and press down causing the the lips to move toward one another a little. Re-measure. If they didn't get closer, repeat with a little more force until they do get a little more closer and stay there. Try cycling your rounds. If you still "bolt-over" the next round in a stack, repeat with them closer still. Try to keep the lips so that the case is almost parallel to the bolt, perhaps with a slight tip upward slant. Very slight. Also, make sure you don't have too much follower spring tension pressing upward. I've taken one entire wind off the bottom of the spring and it still reliably feeds the last round, but with less upward pressure when the magazine is full.
The XTP Mags have a reputation for not feeding the smoothest also. the blunt nose stubs against the ramp as it goes forward. After shooting a mag of them I can look at what started out as a clean ramp and see a dot of copper where each round collided with the ramp as it fed, before deflecting upward and continuing to feed. With the FTX it's more of an even copper streak.
Somewhere on Youtube is a video demonstrating the "lip tweak" process.
Hoot