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SHORT ACTIONS ARE STUPID!!
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<blockquote data-quote="7070yshot" data-source="post: 2094075" data-attributes="member: 114427"><p>Emotions aside I agree that the old school SA chambering could benefit from extended throats and more gentle angled leade so that longer bullets are accepted. Often a extension of .05 to .150 is sufficient. I've done this with 270, 300 WM, 338LM. While this will help some to allow longer bullets it does not address the the magazine length issue and makes the rifle a single shot rifle for those loads. The shorter mag friend loads are unaffected by the longer "jump" in most cases. Solids in particularly actually shoot better.</p><p></p><p>David Tubb has done some pretty interesting things with longer non standard case lengths, 33XC, 37XC and 41xc for example. I think the 6xc still actually fits.</p><p></p><p>to your point putting everything in a long action solves most issues as well. Look at desert tech and how they use long actions and mags with modifications to hold short action cases.</p><p>IMO just use a long action for everything and use modified mags if necessary and extend the throat in almost any chambering. Really not that difficult.</p><p>The same can be done in the AR world but a custom bolt and light weight BCG must be used. Trouble is I haven't found anyone to make one. Would probably require a few mods but definitely possible. Might be a business opportunity there</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="7070yshot, post: 2094075, member: 114427"] Emotions aside I agree that the old school SA chambering could benefit from extended throats and more gentle angled leade so that longer bullets are accepted. Often a extension of .05 to .150 is sufficient. I’ve done this with 270, 300 WM, 338LM. While this will help some to allow longer bullets it does not address the the magazine length issue and makes the rifle a single shot rifle for those loads. The shorter mag friend loads are unaffected by the longer “jump” in most cases. Solids in particularly actually shoot better. David Tubb has done some pretty interesting things with longer non standard case lengths, 33XC, 37XC and 41xc for example. I think the 6xc still actually fits. to your point putting everything in a long action solves most issues as well. Look at desert tech and how they use long actions and mags with modifications to hold short action cases. IMO just use a long action for everything and use modified mags if necessary and extend the throat in almost any chambering. Really not that difficult. The same can be done in the AR world but a custom bolt and light weight BCG must be used. Trouble is I haven’t found anyone to make one. Would probably require a few mods but definitely possible. Might be a business opportunity there [/QUOTE]
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