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The Good The Bad and The Ugly About Yor 6.5 Sherman Short
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<blockquote data-quote="H59" data-source="post: 1461111" data-attributes="member: 105268"><p>2.3051" to throat is what my 6.5 sst print says. If I run at 2.240" base to ojive measurement, the coal of the smk 150gr is 2.940"... now that's with quite a jump to keep it at just inside mag length. I see your point of view of neck length in a "roundabout" way lending itself to determining freebore. Again I would definitely set the gun up from the beginning to shoot the 150's by first running a faster twist,and since I would be using a short action,to set up the bullet coal to be at most a 2.840" with a .020" jump so I wouldn't have to worry about feeding issues or problems ejecting unfired rounds. The big plus of the round is it's a short action,why complicate it with trying to effectively run rounds on the edge of proper function. I realize that's only my opinion, but I think it's a logical one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="H59, post: 1461111, member: 105268"] 2.3051" to throat is what my 6.5 sst print says. If I run at 2.240" base to ojive measurement, the coal of the smk 150gr is 2.940"... now that's with quite a jump to keep it at just inside mag length. I see your point of view of neck length in a "roundabout" way lending itself to determining freebore. Again I would definitely set the gun up from the beginning to shoot the 150's by first running a faster twist,and since I would be using a short action,to set up the bullet coal to be at most a 2.840" with a .020" jump so I wouldn't have to worry about feeding issues or problems ejecting unfired rounds. The big plus of the round is it's a short action,why complicate it with trying to effectively run rounds on the edge of proper function. I realize that's only my opinion, but I think it's a logical one. [/QUOTE]
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