There are at least three diameters you might be concerned about. The actual bolt face, the case head diameter that the extractor spring will properly snap over and extract, and the dimameter of the ring (which is not round) that is in front of the extractor. I'd suggest you ask someone with a 223 Rem 700 to let you handle the bolt and see how it fits with respect to your brass. The dimensions on the 7mmx33 which are .393 and .391 in the equivalent locations are..378 and .376 on a .223. That's only 0.015" diameter difference. It may be practical to open the front ring slighty and perhaps to modify the extractor ring, but you won't know from just having measured diameters of the bolt face. The fore/aft dimensions of the case head relatve to the bolt matter too.
I'm curious why you'd go to the effort to use the 7mmx33 SAKO cartridge? What can it do in a Rem 700 SA action with a 2.8" magazine that a 300WTF can't do as well or better?
Last edited by LouBoyd; 06-05-2011 at 01:24 PM.
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