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Originally Posted by Full Curl Earl
The longer port was needed for Magnum cartridges to be able to seat bullets out farther. For instance. .300 win Mag cartridges need to be seated about .200 off lands or you can't eject an unfired cartridge without removing the bolt. That coupled with the short magazine lengths make older good shooting Tikka T3's a limited tool for playing with different bullet designs.
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I use a small yellow Delrin device called a Bob Sled Insert all the time in my Tikka T3 223.....Single shot loading is very frustrating without this device. And it also makes it easy to single load bullets that are too long for the magazine.