I'm still playing around with reloads for this 30-06. I'm learning alot, and collecting lots of tools, various bullets, and powders!
So today I finally get a chance to play with my new Hornady Overall Length Guage. I confirmed what I found when just a bullet in an empty brass: The Overall Length of a three different 165 to 180 gr bullet is 3.450" to 3.480" touching the lands. For a cartridge that the books show an OAL of 3.340" for, that seems very long!
The magazine won't allow for an OAL 3.450". So no loading "just off the lands" for this rifle!
Question: Does Rem make the Model 700 with this long a throat or is it perhaps been shot so much it is worn out? I bought it used as a teenager about 35 years ago, so maybe!
