At least I seem to recall you have an MRC 1999 in 7x57.

How is the throating on that - long, short or in between, and is that a standard MRC barreled action or was it custom chambered?

The reason for asking is that my inner loony is nagging me about the really, really long throat on the factory 6.5x55, so long that the 3.1" mag length is rendered moot by still not being able to get close to the lands at a 3.050" OAL with mid-weight bullets. It doesn't seem fitting to waste that length on a .243 or 7mm-08 so I was thinking of having them rebarrel it to 7x57 and wondered if they put the same old military throat length on that.

I'd ask them directly but, while I like their rifles, have had less than specific and informative answers to tech questions like this.


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