I am loading for a Rem 700 CDL with a 24 inch barrel. I load the 200 gr Hornady SP with IMR 4064 at 58.5 gr and a Fed 210 primer and crimped with a Lee Factory Crimp Die. In my gun, this bullet kisses the lands at an overall length of 3.366 inches. The Hornady manual recommends an overall length of 3.110 inches, or as you stated, a 1/4 inch jump. The accuracy with this load is sub MOA at 100 yards. Looking to get closer to the lands, I next tried the 200 gr Barnes TSX FB. The initial load was with RL15 at 57.5 gr and a Fed 210M primer, also crimped. Overall length was 3.330 in. placing it 0.038 in off the lands. The inaccuracy with this load produced +2 MOA with pronounced vertical stringing. The next attempt with this bullet kept everything consistent except the load was increased to 58.0 grains and it wasn't crimped. With this load the inaccuracy didn't improve and the primers started to back out. The Barnes loads produced max velocity spreads of 156 fps with both loads. This suprised me because I figured the crimp on tht Barnes bullet was the culprit! The Hornady loads gave max spreads of 36 fps for an overall average velocity of 2654 fps.

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