.338 RUM reloading question

[casilva43]

I'm about to start reloading .338 rum rounds using brass that was previously loaded with 25O grain bullets. I'm wanting to reload with 300 grain accubonds.

My question is will the 300 grain accubonds be too long to cycle in the Remington sendero bolt action?

Thanks for the help...

 

[johnnyk]

If you seat the bullets deep enough so that your cartridges fit in your magazine, I can't imagine there being any problems with them cycling. This may not be the optimum overall length (OAL) for your load though. When you find the sweet spot on your seating depth, the cartridges may be so long you have to load them single shot, but hey, it's a .338 RUM! Shouldn't take many, huh?

 

[Outlaw6.0]

I was able to get the 300 SMK to cycle from a 3.600 Mag. A healthy dose of 7828 (IIRC), got me to right at 2800fps. Needless to say, I was compress just a smidge of powder....


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