ORIGINAL: DM
ORIGINAL: Rootsy
Take it to your favorite accomplished gunsmith and have him put a SAKO extractor on the bolt... Otherwise, make sure that the little dinky extractor inside of the bolt face doesn't have a bunch of brass and crap built up behind it...
The Saco extractor conversion isn't worth the money... Remington extractor problems keep being "repeated" over and over even though 99.99% of 700 owners never have even one problem with there extractor.
I build my brown bear rifle around 1980 on a 700 Rem. rifle, and it's worked flawless since then. It's hammered more than one bear along with all kinds of other big game i ran into while out in the bush. I have several other 700's too, and none of them have ever had an extractor problem.
This guys bolt needs to go back to Rem. and be fixed properly, probably for free, and if it's like my 700's, he can forget about having any problems with it.
DM
I've built 27 custom 700's to date... Used the SAKO conversion a few times upon request... no opinion about it one way or another. My personal 700's all have factory extractors. If they become damaged, dislodged or packed with crap they will not function. All it takes is someone trying to pry it out of the groove who has only half an idea of what they are doing, to get it twisted out of shape and it will not work properly...
They way it works... shell literally "pops" from magazine after guided by the rails up the feed ramp... bolt pushes round into chamber... close bolt and the extractor clicks over the rim of the case and case head compresses the ejector button. Upon extraction that button is pressing outward, the extractor is hanging onto the outside edge, the shell, so long as it has a resistance force keeping it fairly in line with the bolt and the ejector button compressed should not come out of the extractor. In this case that is the side of the chamber itself. Once clear that ejector button causes the case to rotate outward as the rim is still held beneath extractor. Once that case clears any resistance holding it inline with the bolt the spring pressure of the ejector button flings her outward.