Bullet Profiles

[Ernest T]

Sometimes an aftermarket mag exists that allows a longer coal. Tikka for example.

I can get a little longer mag by removing the binder plate, but the feed ramp is really the main impediment to feeding a longer bullet.

 

[Rob01]

Not on my rifle. With the Hornady 140 ELD Match, the COAL has to be longer than 2.920 to reach the lands.

That's because it's a factory rifle and it's a crap shoot if it will be near SAAMI. I was saying with an actual SAAMI chamber it is touching at 2.870". Yours is overly long which can happen in factory rifles. Savage has actually had a bunch that were really short too. Load it to about 2.860 so it fits comfortably in the rifle and work up a load. Again the ELDs don't mind a jump.

 

[Rob01]

I can get a little longer mag by removing the binder plate, but the feed ramp is really the main impediment to feeding a longer bullet.

You can dremel it out so it will load longer and feed. The ramp isn't even needed with an AICS mag. Back when they started changing over 700 actions to AICS DBMs they would move the feed ramp back a good ways or at least groove it out like notching it out.

 

[Ernest T]

I was in Cabela's today and bought a box of 147 gr Hornady ELD Match to see how they compare to the 140 gr ELD match bullets.

 

[Rob01]

They will be about .020” oal longer than the 140. The 147 was 2.890” to lands in my SAAMI chamber.

 

[Ernest T]

They will be about .020” oal longer than the 140. The 147 was 2.890” to lands in my SAAMI chamber.

That would be an improvement!