Shooting light short bullets in Chamber cut for LONG VLD's

[chadwickz71]

I have a 28 nosler throated long for 195vlds. My OAL is 3.70 per se. I had to buy some 150gr e-tip loaded ammo a while back as brass was out of stock. Its a totally different bullet shape compared to the stretched out VLD's but I measured them and the OAL are around 3.30.

I was going to use them to break in my barrel and for fowlers but thought i'd see if there was a concern with shooting these rounds in the long throated chamber. Don't want to do anything stupid here by being lazy when I can pull the bullet etc and reload with my 195's.

Thanks

 

[Catfur]

Nothing untoward will happen. Bad things happen can happen when you jam bullets, long freebore doesn't cause safety problems (may cause accuracy problems, but solids usually like a longer freebore).

 

[tmwinds]

Don't worry about the over all length. If you have the equipment, measure the ogive to base length. You may not be jumping the bullets as far as you think.