R700 308 Jump/Jam/OAL Question..Help me out.

[M_16_4_REAL]

took a few measurements on a new 700 trying to get a starting length for jump/jam using a hornady oal gauge and i got a little surprise. i thought i was doing something wrong till i went back to the old tried and true rod stop measurement method and got the same measurements i got with the hornady gauge.
here's the rod method i used finding starting OAL

using hornady's 168 and 178 grain amax's i got measurements of:

178 - 2.955 oal 2.237 ogive

168 - 2.940 oal 2.236 ogive

both just touching the lands

now i realize that remmy's have always run long in the throat department but .155 thou long? is this correct? am i doing something wrong or is it just the way it is? please let me know if you've come across similar issues or if you have any suggestions.

 

[700sendero]

Re: R700 308 Jump/Jam/OAL Question..Help me out.

Yea...my ltr has it too...a deep throat...lol...178 bthp it think were like 2.9 something touchin..

 

[1lnbrdg]

Re: R700 308 Jump/Jam/OAL Question..Help me out.

The last Remmy barrel I had, couldn't even close to get a 190 Sierra to touch the rifling. Seated out as long as I could get it, they were still jumping about .070". Dang thing was a Hammer with them though. Thought I'd be smart and had the barrel set back. It never did shoot quite as good after that.

 

[M_16_4_REAL]

Re: R700 308 Jump/Jam/OAL Question..Help me out.

well after talking to some other reloaders with r700's it seems to be a common issue. ill just have to make the best of it. good to know I'm not going crazy and i can still read a dial.