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Cooper Rifle - Long Throat?
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaRifleman" data-source="post: 861602" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>This is one of the problems with factory rifles. Often the throats are reamed too long to seat bullets close to the lands and still fit in the magazine. ESPECIALLY in short actions. They do this in part, I think to avoid any liability issues. The only short action factory rifle I would consider buying would be a 6.5x47, or 22 cal something or something with a case OAL of 1.9" or less depending on make of rifle. The factories don't make rifles for guys who load to the lands, if they load at all. Cooper does make rifles knowing that many of their customer will develop loads for them.</p><p></p><p>In your case, If you load to fit the magazine and have a .060 jump you'll probably just fine and I doubt you will loose much accuracy life. Just a bit of a pain not to be able to have more seating depth options. When you start to get some accuracy degradation you can always set it back a little and readjust the throat but you will probably loose a good inch of barrel... or just do a complete rebarrel the way you want it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaRifleman, post: 861602, member: 11717"] This is one of the problems with factory rifles. Often the throats are reamed too long to seat bullets close to the lands and still fit in the magazine. ESPECIALLY in short actions. They do this in part, I think to avoid any liability issues. The only short action factory rifle I would consider buying would be a 6.5x47, or 22 cal something or something with a case OAL of 1.9" or less depending on make of rifle. The factories don't make rifles for guys who load to the lands, if they load at all. Cooper does make rifles knowing that many of their customer will develop loads for them. In your case, If you load to fit the magazine and have a .060 jump you'll probably just fine and I doubt you will loose much accuracy life. Just a bit of a pain not to be able to have more seating depth options. When you start to get some accuracy degradation you can always set it back a little and readjust the throat but you will probably loose a good inch of barrel... or just do a complete rebarrel the way you want it. [/QUOTE]
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