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<blockquote data-quote="nralifer" data-source="post: 2680208" data-attributes="member: 94556"><p>Mine seems to feed well from a Savage 110 action and allows our bullets to seat out farther without the constraint of a shorter action. At 3200fps with our 175 BD2 the bullet at 1000 yds is still till going 1770 fps at 1000 yds with about 1200+ ft-lbs energy at standard sea level conditions and the OAL 3.076" 0.020" off the lands. In a short action the max OAL I can get is 2.880 and still use the mag. The extra length allows me to use a much better bullet than the 168 gr TSX I was using without the boat tail impinging into the powder space a full caliber length. The G1BC on the TSX is only 0.404 compared to the 0.605 for the BD2. With both bullets having the same MV, the large difference in BC and the fact that the TSX expansion is unreliable at 1700 fps means that the extra action length allows for the use of a vastly superior hunting bullet which at 1000 yds is going 500 fps faster with 2x the bullet energy and able to reliably expand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nralifer, post: 2680208, member: 94556"] Mine seems to feed well from a Savage 110 action and allows our bullets to seat out farther without the constraint of a shorter action. At 3200fps with our 175 BD2 the bullet at 1000 yds is still till going 1770 fps at 1000 yds with about 1200+ ft-lbs energy at standard sea level conditions and the OAL 3.076” 0.020” off the lands. In a short action the max OAL I can get is 2.880 and still use the mag. The extra length allows me to use a much better bullet than the 168 gr TSX I was using without the boat tail impinging into the powder space a full caliber length. The G1BC on the TSX is only 0.404 compared to the 0.605 for the BD2. With both bullets having the same MV, the large difference in BC and the fact that the TSX expansion is unreliable at 1700 fps means that the extra action length allows for the use of a vastly superior hunting bullet which at 1000 yds is going 500 fps faster with 2x the bullet energy and able to reliably expand. [/QUOTE]
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