turk follower
Tony
You have me scratching my head. Now I've only been at this for about a dozen years so
far but, I can't remember ever seeing a Turk in 7MM. At least not one that you'd want
to put a 308 on. The 03 and KKale are the only 2 that I'd want to build a 308 on and all of
those I've seen were in 8MM. Granted the 03's were 7mm before they were 8MM. So I'm
going to just say that it was a typo and let it go at that.
Now about feeding....
I'd say stay away from the rails until you have thoroughly examined how the case
shoulder interacts with the feed ramp. It'll be a long time before I forget one of my
early builds on a German 98, going from 8MM to .25-06. The bolt would start striping
the cartridge from the mag and as soon as the case shoulder hit the feed ramp it
would send the bullet nose right into the breach face. I had to open and smooth the
feed ramp area (ONLY) to get it to feed properly. I lucked into a small pile of receivers
that had been thru the Columbian Rfamage facility. They were all 7MM to 30-06 conversions. There were FN's, Brno's, Styer's and they all had similar ramp work done to
them as I had done for the 25-06. So if you are having feed issues look very closley
at the feed ramp. Cycle your bolt very slowly and examine what the cartridge is doing
as it moves forward. As soon as the nose of the bullet starts heading somewhere other
than the center of the chamber take note. Slowly remove the offending interference and
repeate until the nose heads straight for the chamber.
As to blocking, front , rear, at all ? it's all optional. I have a 98 in .308 with no blocking
and it feeds flawlessly.
Best of luck.
Tinker