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Are you sure there wasn't some other type of incompatibility besides jump? I've shot a very large number of good groups with .308" bullets jumping at or near 1/8" in several rifles.

Since we're already off topic...might as well go whole hog!

I'll see your Canucks and raise you a Palma! Remember when the Palma matches were not only shot with ammo provided by the host country, but also with rifles provided by the host country! One year the Palma Matches were shot with M14's!!! But at least it wasn't an equipment race and all competitors had to center up with more less the same accuracy. Trying to gain an equipment edge has always been part of human nature. The Brits weight sorted their Bob Jensen issued ammo. They won that year. Coincidence? Story goes that Boots started cutting tightbore .298's because the British RG was all over the map on diameter. ...and squeezing them a skosh more gave better accuracy.

That said...with the other lengths they went through with the XBR's (ie etching the receiver instead of roll stamping it to avoid distortion) it's a mystery to me why Remington would chamber their factory BR rifle with a NATO reamer.

Bernchrest accuracy is a little different and I have a tight neck reamer (334) specifically for that.