FINALLY!!! Tikka Left Handed 223's

I bought this gun thinking. Sweet, cheap to shoot, I’ll throw on a 6x SWFA and throw it in the truck and shoot it a lot. After two range trips, good god, I love this gun. Setup with a Harris bipod, 6x Gen 2, UM rings and an Otter creek polonium. The UM group was the last I shot, and the gun was too hot to touch, so I don’t think this gun loves AAC ammo, but it shoots the OTM’s good enough. These are all 20 shot groups shot with about 10 minutes of a break in betweenIMG_7789.jpegIMG_7786.jpeg
 
Maybe I got lucky.
First: I measured 0.25” back from the magazine stop and used a thin diamond dremel bit to make a cut inside of the feed ramps.
Second: I used a dremel with a thin cutoff wheel to cut at an angle under the feed ramps.
Third: I used a sharp box cutter to score the walls of the “block” so I could fracture it.
Fourth: once I was convinced I had scored it enough, I used needle nose vice grips to fracture the magazine block out.
Fifth: i used a round file to remove any “proud” areas from the feed lips
Sixth: I cut the excess material off the top of the magazine block so it was flat.
Last: I glued it all back together with superglue.

In the future: I may need to reinforce the magazine block with spray foam. I also may need to add 0.25” back to the back of the follower to keep it from moving to the rear when cartridges are loaded.
Can I see a picture?
 
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