Wanting to build a 17 Fireball
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Lucky Shooter A
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Fireball Action
Remington made some Light Varmint rifles in 221 FB. Might be a possibility for an action.
I did a 221 FB on a 223 40X action and it was a nice gun.
I'd think one of the Score HI aluminum single shot loading blocks would also work with the FB on a standard 700 action.
Good luck.
A. Weldy
Remington made some Light Varmint rifles in 221 FB. Might be a possibility for an action.
I did a 221 FB on a 223 40X action and it was a nice gun.
I'd think one of the Score HI aluminum single shot loading blocks would also work with the FB on a standard 700 action.
Good luck.
A. Weldy
Thanks but looking for a repeater. A lot of my shootin is off a bench and in a P dog town. A single shot works great there, but for yotes and fox I'd like a repeater.
Thanks !
Still lookin !
Jim
I have several 221 FBs and also 221FB in 700 LVSF. The Remington 700 fireball actions use a slightly different magazine spring and follower dimension than the 223's and also the location of the ejector on the bolt is positioned differently. Many folks report some problems with extraction/ejection when they convert a 700 .223 action to a fireball length use. There is quite a bit of additional info on saubier.com about all this. Don
Mike Bryant
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I ran into the same trouble with the .300 AAC Blackout which is the .221 Fireball necked up to .30. Pacific Tool and Gauge makes a replacement bolt that will shift the Remington extractor and ejector to where it ejects the case into the round area of the raceway instead of the the lug area of the raceway. This lets the extractor hang onto the case until the ejector kicks it out. That's the same thing that Remington did on their .221 Fireball 700's. If the Fireball case ejects into the lug area of the raceway which is where the normal extractor placement makes it go, then the case falls off the bolt face before it ejects.
Mike Bryant
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I quit installing Sako style extractors in .223 sized bolt faces after Benchrest Hall of Fame shooter, Pat Byrne, had a sako extractor blow out of a .223 and penetrated a steel door. Fortunately, no one was hurt. I haven't seen that problem with the sako extractor and PPC sized and larger case head sizes, but it's too easy to blow a primer when going up on powder charges in .223 size cases. You can go from safe with no problems to a blown primer with a very slight increase in powder charge.
Mike Bryant
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I think I built maybe one rifle on a Fireball 700 action. Don't remember what the feed rails were. If there is a problem with using a .223 action with the feed rails, you can use a center feed magazine like a H-S detachable magazine. Then you aren't relying on the feed rails of the action for feeding.
