In other words - A country mile!about 3/8,s of an inch
In other words - A country mile!about 3/8,s of an inch
The nickel is very sturdy, so don't worry about it at all.Wow. I'm just batting a thousand today. My Mark V is indeed made in Japan and is silver colored. This is a recent acquisition and obviously I'm not the original owner. So, it's an Alaskan model? How does the nickel plate hold up to extreme weather? Most of my elk hunting is for Roosevelts on the Olympic peninsula, so in extreme wet weather.
Some context to my original question. I knew the amount of freebore in a Weatherby was long, but just didn't expect this much. I'm reading all of these posts about seating depth and seeing values of 0.020 off the lands as a starting point. I'm reading this and thinking "There's no way I could ever get close to this close".
Right now, I'm wondering if I really have enough of the bullet seated at 0.250 off the lands.
Guys it's also a function of the length of the magazine box . You can load relative to the ogive all day long and get the bullet closer to the lands, but it it doesn't extract it's useless . So measure the magazine box . Weatherbys need a lot of freebore .Hi, I also have a 300WBY (made in Japan) when I do load development I either start a 3.700 max length that fits in magazine or whatever loading manual suggests. Once I find a promising load I retest the load at different AOL's using .030 differences between 3.560 and 3.700 to see if anything is a clear winner. Good Luck
Guys it's also a function of the length of the magazine box . You can load relative to the ogive all day long and get the bullet closer to the lands, but it it doesn't extract it's useless . So measure the magazine box . Weatherbys need a lot of freebore .
For example my magazine well measures 3.760" if you load to that size the cartridge doesn't extract. So I have to seat the bullet deeper . 3.740 works great for extraction.
Now to test the accuracy and the pressures .