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Winchester XPR accuracy
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<blockquote data-quote="cohunt" data-source="post: 1775219" data-attributes="member: 94491"><p>Looks to be some variance in the XPR magazines (doesn't surprise me since they are injected poly mags)</p><p></p><p>I bought a WSM XPR magazine just to play with (before buying a rifle) and with the staock magazine I can get 2.970", if I remove the small metal plate in the front of the mag I can get 2.995"--If I were to slot the front of the mag with a narrow mill bit I could get at least 3.093"--BUT I know I can't get 3 full rounds in the mag at that length as I would have to slot the front of the mag right through the mag catch and I'm afraid it would not hold proper into the rifle without the full mag catch and the tips would snag the mag catch on feeding while in the gun</p><p></p><p>BUT that shows me that I could get really close to 3.1" (which is what I was looking for to load the 215 hybrid's) for the WSM cartridge in the XPR--on a side note, my win 70 in 7wsm allows for 3.025" so the xpr would allow for longer loading than the model 70</p><p></p><p>I spoke with Winchester and they kind of let on that they may have "new models" of the XPR for shot show this year so I think I'm going to wit to see what they come out with--looking at their "international" models, I'm thinking shorter threaded barrels is what we will see in the states as LOTS of their international models are threaded barrels and many are shorter barrels that what we normally see here in the US</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cohunt, post: 1775219, member: 94491"] Looks to be some variance in the XPR magazines (doesn't surprise me since they are injected poly mags) I bought a WSM XPR magazine just to play with (before buying a rifle) and with the staock magazine I can get 2.970", if I remove the small metal plate in the front of the mag I can get 2.995"--If I were to slot the front of the mag with a narrow mill bit I could get at least 3.093"--BUT I know I can't get 3 full rounds in the mag at that length as I would have to slot the front of the mag right through the mag catch and I'm afraid it would not hold proper into the rifle without the full mag catch and the tips would snag the mag catch on feeding while in the gun BUT that shows me that I could get really close to 3.1" (which is what I was looking for to load the 215 hybrid's) for the WSM cartridge in the XPR--on a side note, my win 70 in 7wsm allows for 3.025" so the xpr would allow for longer loading than the model 70 I spoke with Winchester and they kind of let on that they may have "new models" of the XPR for shot show this year so I think I'm going to wit to see what they come out with--looking at their "international" models, I'm thinking shorter threaded barrels is what we will see in the states as LOTS of their international models are threaded barrels and many are shorter barrels that what we normally see here in the US [/QUOTE]
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