I was talking with Keith about these LRAB bullets and how they fit in short action magazine boxes, so here's a couple of pics to further illustrate the 129gr version. My 6.5x47L was put together by LRI and I believe it was their .123FB reamer. The LRAB is just off the lands with my loads at 2.740". This was originally done to allow maximum latitude in a SA 700 BDL box, but I later moved to a DBM setup, first with a MagPul stock and them with a Bergara HMR take-off stock (which I like far better).

MagPul magazines allow a 2.85"-ish OAL. Here's Hornady 6.5CM 140gr HPBT factory ammo on the left (2.795") and my 6.5x47L handloads on the right (2.740"). Were I building that rifle today, intending to use a DBM setup from the start, I'd go 6.5CM with the shortest throat I could get away with that would allow factory ammo. For a factory mag box, it is tough to beat the 6.5x47L.

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Good geometry with the 129gr and a .123 freebore reamer.

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Now with even more aplomb