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308 win and the berger 215
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<blockquote data-quote="Ray Gross" data-source="post: 2652377" data-attributes="member: 95172"><p>As noted above, a SAAMI spec .308 chamber really struggles with bullets 200 grs and up. It will shoot them, but you are giving up a lot of powder space because the heavy bullets need to be seated fairly deep. </p><p></p><p>One of the more common FTR chambers (2013 FTR Team chamber) has a throat .088 longer than the SAAMI throat and Berger 185's and 200's are only seated about 40% of the way down the neck. 30 inch barrels where the norm with some 28's and 32's and a few 34" barrels.</p><p></p><p>I don't have a lot of current info regarding the 215's other than some of the FTR teams were experimenting with them 6-7 years ago. At the time, the 215's were not scoring as well as the 185's or 200's. That may have changed since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ray Gross, post: 2652377, member: 95172"] As noted above, a SAAMI spec .308 chamber really struggles with bullets 200 grs and up. It will shoot them, but you are giving up a lot of powder space because the heavy bullets need to be seated fairly deep. One of the more common FTR chambers (2013 FTR Team chamber) has a throat .088 longer than the SAAMI throat and Berger 185's and 200's are only seated about 40% of the way down the neck. 30 inch barrels where the norm with some 28's and 32's and a few 34" barrels. I don't have a lot of current info regarding the 215's other than some of the FTR teams were experimenting with them 6-7 years ago. At the time, the 215's were not scoring as well as the 185's or 200's. That may have changed since. [/QUOTE]
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