Great article. Common sense at work.
For years I built 300 Win Mags, 7 Rem Mags,300 Weatherby's and (most recently) a 7mm Mashburn Super on "long" actions with H&H length boxes to accommodate better and more versatile bullet seating with long high BC bullets.....even before the current trend of high BC bullets.
Things just fit better when they have some leg room.
The short action business never made much sense to me. After a bunch of standard and WSM rifles, I am not enchanted with them.
John is , as usual, correct on bolt manipulation as well.
