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Is this even possible? Rem 700 Incredible length of cartridge OAL to lands
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<blockquote data-quote="YZ-80" data-source="post: 2991611" data-attributes="member: 109229"><p>I hate it when this happens but it does. If it were me, I'd consider the published COL for the Bullet and Mag length. Somewhere I had read that you should always have the equivalent of the bullet diameter as bearing surface in the neck. Anyway, I've always found that closer to the lands (but not too close) is better. I almost always end up .015 or .020 off where I find the best accuracy. But when you are pushing the bullet completely out of the comparator case with the OAL gauge, the guessing game begins. My TiKka did that to me with both a 123 SST and a 143 ELDX. In the end, I ended up right at tha bottom of the cannelure with the SST and like, .050 off with the ELDX and it shot great. Sometimes those OAL gauges don't give you a hard stop at the lands and you can have .030 (or more) variance on the reading, depending upon the ogive profile. Very frustrating. Thank God for Bourbon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YZ-80, post: 2991611, member: 109229"] I hate it when this happens but it does. If it were me, I'd consider the published COL for the Bullet and Mag length. Somewhere I had read that you should always have the equivalent of the bullet diameter as bearing surface in the neck. Anyway, I've always found that closer to the lands (but not too close) is better. I almost always end up .015 or .020 off where I find the best accuracy. But when you are pushing the bullet completely out of the comparator case with the OAL gauge, the guessing game begins. My TiKka did that to me with both a 123 SST and a 143 ELDX. In the end, I ended up right at tha bottom of the cannelure with the SST and like, .050 off with the ELDX and it shot great. Sometimes those OAL gauges don't give you a hard stop at the lands and you can have .030 (or more) variance on the reading, depending upon the ogive profile. Very frustrating. Thank God for Bourbon. [/QUOTE]
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