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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1048568" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>Me and a buddy just bought identical Savage VLPs in 300 WSM. We were able to chamber a no-go gage in his rifle! I've never seen that before. We reheadspaced both rifles with the barrel screwed down on a go gage - snug but not tight. The last line of writing on the barrel on both rifles is now no longer visible as the barrel was rotated so that the writing dropped below the wood on the stock.</p><p> </p><p>Here is the interesting part, my buddy had bought a box of Nosler 180 Accubond ammo as it is about the same price as the brass! Anyway, some of those rounds but not all of them would not chamber with any kind of normal effort. We guessed that Nosler had compressed the crap out of the powder in that ammo and had bulged the cases in the shoulder area so we pulled the bullets, took the powder out (we had to dig the powder out with a needle). Then we FL resized the cases, reprimed with Fed 215s and no problem, they all fit smooth.</p><p> </p><p>The reason I use a go gage to set headspace - it is a precision tool and is highly repeatable. I have timed brakes on several Savage barrels and the barrels need to be put back in the same place for the timing to be correct. Also, I want minimum headspace BUT I want the headspace to be within industry standards so it matches up with standard dies. I don't care about factory ammo as I personally have never bought any centerfire factory ammo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1048568, member: 63138"] Me and a buddy just bought identical Savage VLPs in 300 WSM. We were able to chamber a no-go gage in his rifle! I've never seen that before. We reheadspaced both rifles with the barrel screwed down on a go gage - snug but not tight. The last line of writing on the barrel on both rifles is now no longer visible as the barrel was rotated so that the writing dropped below the wood on the stock. Here is the interesting part, my buddy had bought a box of Nosler 180 Accubond ammo as it is about the same price as the brass! Anyway, some of those rounds but not all of them would not chamber with any kind of normal effort. We guessed that Nosler had compressed the crap out of the powder in that ammo and had bulged the cases in the shoulder area so we pulled the bullets, took the powder out (we had to dig the powder out with a needle). Then we FL resized the cases, reprimed with Fed 215s and no problem, they all fit smooth. The reason I use a go gage to set headspace - it is a precision tool and is highly repeatable. I have timed brakes on several Savage barrels and the barrels need to be put back in the same place for the timing to be correct. Also, I want minimum headspace BUT I want the headspace to be within industry standards so it matches up with standard dies. I don't care about factory ammo as I personally have never bought any centerfire factory ammo. [/QUOTE]
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