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Building remington 700 bdl 6.5 rem mag
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<blockquote data-quote="jlvandersnick" data-source="post: 1600748" data-attributes="member: 40932"><p>COAL is "Cartridge OverAll Lenght"</p><p></p><p>Free bore (aka: leade) is just that, it is the area ahead of the bullet ogive ... in the barrel until the bullets ogive contacts the lands of the rifling, hence <em>free bore</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><u>So in other words the action is to short to use with long bullets and even with a la the chamber has to be lenghtend for longer bullets unless they are seated farther down in the case?</u></em></p><p>Basically Yes....if you want to get the performance that the cartridge is capable of<em><u></u></em></p><p><em><u></u></em></p><p>I have not tried shorter/lighter bullets. On all of my rifles I tend to shoot the longest, heaviest bullets that the cartridge and the twist rate on my barrel will support.</p><p></p><p>Which is another thing to consider....barrel twist. Mine is an 8 twist. Meaning the rifling in the barrel will make one complete revolution per eight inches of barrel</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jlvandersnick, post: 1600748, member: 40932"] COAL is "Cartridge OverAll Lenght" Free bore (aka: leade) is just that, it is the area ahead of the bullet ogive ... in the barrel until the bullets ogive contacts the lands of the rifling, hence [I]free bore [U]So in other words the action is to short to use with long bullets and even with a la the chamber has to be lenghtend for longer bullets unless they are seated farther down in the case?[/U][/I] Basically Yes....if you want to get the performance that the cartridge is capable of[I][U] [/U][/I] I have not tried shorter/lighter bullets. On all of my rifles I tend to shoot the longest, heaviest bullets that the cartridge and the twist rate on my barrel will support. Which is another thing to consider....barrel twist. Mine is an 8 twist. Meaning the rifling in the barrel will make one complete revolution per eight inches of barrel [/QUOTE]
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