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Throat burned out or not???
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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 1529887" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>The very long freebore gives the extra expansion room before hitting the rifling that allowed the Weatherby cartridges to exceed others of similar size in velocity. You cannot reach the rifling in this cartridge with any bullet that I know of and still feed it through the magazine. This freebore can be a problem with the newly popular VLD bullets. Some will shoot ok in this cartridge and some will shoot like a shotgun. The cartridge was designed for flat based bullets. It seems to like the short boattail on the Nosler Ballistic tip line. There are some VLD bullets that like to jump aways, but, like I said earlier, try the 150 BT, and some 7828. This is a known combination that will shoot well, if the rifle is sound. Forget about the lands, freebore, and just load to factory length.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 1529887, member: 92702"] The very long freebore gives the extra expansion room before hitting the rifling that allowed the Weatherby cartridges to exceed others of similar size in velocity. You cannot reach the rifling in this cartridge with any bullet that I know of and still feed it through the magazine. This freebore can be a problem with the newly popular VLD bullets. Some will shoot ok in this cartridge and some will shoot like a shotgun. The cartridge was designed for flat based bullets. It seems to like the short boattail on the Nosler Ballistic tip line. There are some VLD bullets that like to jump aways, but, like I said earlier, try the 150 BT, and some 7828. This is a known combination that will shoot well, if the rifle is sound. Forget about the lands, freebore, and just load to factory length. [/QUOTE]
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