Hello,
I'm having my 308 re-barreled and I'm just thinking about throat length.
My factory Rem700 barrel had the typical long throat so I mainly shot 175smk's due to there tolerance of jumping to the lands. However I did load up some 185gr and 190 VLD's but needed to seat them out just off the lands for them to shoot good therefor single loading them. I did however like the better performance when shooting out to 1000-1200 yds.
So is it possible to have a throat that would allow the VLD's to be seated to mag length or would the bullet be seated back past the shoulder/neck junction anyways.
If this was possible would the freebore be too short for 175 smk's?
Thanks for your help!!!
I'm having my 308 re-barreled and I'm just thinking about throat length.
My factory Rem700 barrel had the typical long throat so I mainly shot 175smk's due to there tolerance of jumping to the lands. However I did load up some 185gr and 190 VLD's but needed to seat them out just off the lands for them to shoot good therefor single loading them. I did however like the better performance when shooting out to 1000-1200 yds.
So is it possible to have a throat that would allow the VLD's to be seated to mag length or would the bullet be seated back past the shoulder/neck junction anyways.
If this was possible would the freebore be too short for 175 smk's?
Thanks for your help!!!