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It is a push-feed design with spring-loaded ejector in the breech face. Whether it is the first round or the last round should have no bearing on ejection. Is the extractor good? Does it pass the shake test (without the ejector of course)? Is the ejector free in its channel? Does it eject unfired rounds any better? When it fail to eject, what exactly happened? The empty just didn’t move at all, or it just didn’t fling out with enough vigor? -TL

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Agree with TL. Best guess is extractor isn’t holding the case up on the bolt face when the last round isn’t supported by the round under it in the magazine. Sounds like extractor issues, not ejector. Jeff

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The ejector is ok, as far as I can tell, checked it with my 700 no difference, put in a new spring just to see if the tension was good with no difference. The ejector is free to move. Only the last round will eject. And it will eject every time. With cartridges in the mag well. The round being extracted will not eject at all. No difference in fired case or live round.

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That’s a head scratcher.

Take the bolt out of the rifle, and put a empty casing in the bolt face, under the extractor. The ejector should be pushing on the brass head so that the brass has a strong tendency to go out of alignment with the bolt.

With the bolt in the rifle, such tendency should be observed as soon as the bolt travels to the back. The brass is spring loaded to jump out, and it would do so as soon as its mouth clears the the ejection port.

Sounds like with rounds in the magazine the bolt couldn’t be pulled back far enough for the brass to jump out. When it failed to eject, what did you have to do to get the brass out? You would have to dump the Mag? -TL

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When you start to extract the case as soon as it can it will move to the right side, the ejector has good tension on it. As stated earlier the last round in the chamber with the magazine empty it will eject every time it is just when there is ammo in the magazine that it won’t eject it, big puzzle. I’ve had the same problem on a standard round and fixed the problem, but that will not work on this rifle. Short fat cartridge ❗ its almost like the receiver is too short but, it works on the last round, back in I think 2008 I had one come in with the same problem tried everything I could think of, finally I put a slight chamfer on the extractor, just to see, what could it have hurt. It worked, but that rifle it would not extract even the last round. That was crazy…

P.S Glad to be back with GCA… had to go away for a couple years due to my sick wife, but all is better on the home front. Please pray for good health!!! Thanks Mike Duncan.

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Still not sure of exactly what is going on. The bolt doesn’t move far enough to the rear for the case to eject/clear the edge of the receiver or the case simply won’t eject when there are rounds in the magazine? Ken

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No the bolt goes back far enough, the rifle will simply not eject a live round unless it is the last round in the chamber with none in the magazine. I miss stated earlier about the spent case not ejecting, it will eject with rounds in the magazine just not a live round. Going to put a new extractor in to see if that will work. Thanks for the feedback. Mike

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Check to make sure there is enough clearance between the bullet nose and the ejection port……probably is as it works some of the time. Fit the existing extractor so it holds onto the case as best as Rem 700 extractors can. You may also want to adjust the ejector so it has more ejector throw, and possibly move the last part or area of the ejector that touches the case closer to extractor. Welcome to Rem 700 extractors 👿 Ken