Not sure if this has been hashed over or not.
Anyhow, what is the deal with the contradicting lengths of the magazine OCL vs. the throated chambering of the 300 WinMag?
New to this round for reloading I'm coming into a dilemma where the max OCL for the magazine is .224 shorter than what I'm guaging with the Lock 'n' Load guage. Hence my bullets are having to make an (almost) 1/4" jump to get to the lands.
Is this normal behavior for rifle companies (mine, Ruger 77) to throat this round way out there, while restricted ultimately from the magazine well?
I'm going to dinker around with making .020 off the lands initial loads for first shot accuracy. (by the way, accuracy for this given rifle is minute of barn). Do any of you make a first round load development based off the lands measurements rather than books' OCL?
Thanks for any insight you may offer.
kcTbear
