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AR15/10 Rifles
DPMS .260 first 3 loads
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<blockquote data-quote="Nimrodmar10" data-source="post: 879178" data-attributes="member: 36369"><p>Lou</p><p>I understand your line of thinking. Until recently I would have agreed. I bought a Remington 700 SPS in 7 STW. The case length on this case is 2.850" and the SAMMI max length is only 3.60". In my new rifle I can only stretch this out by about .02" and still fit the magazine. Still pretty short. Waaay too short to seat the Berger 180 gr. VLD Hunting bullets I want to shoot in this gun out to the lands, where they like to be seated. But the Berger Reloading Manual showed some pretty impressive numbers with this bullet seated to this length so I decided to give it a try. The neck is .2783". This bullet is 1.524" long. That's .496" of bullet extending into the case body. No way it will shoot, right? Wrong. I'm pushing the bullets at almost 3000 fps and they're shooting in the .3s. So don't write a bullet off just because it's long.</p><p>Could I get more speed out of the STW if I could use this case space for powder? Yeah, but since this is a hunting rifle, I want it to be a repeater.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nimrodmar10, post: 879178, member: 36369"] Lou I understand your line of thinking. Until recently I would have agreed. I bought a Remington 700 SPS in 7 STW. The case length on this case is 2.850" and the SAMMI max length is only 3.60". In my new rifle I can only stretch this out by about .02" and still fit the magazine. Still pretty short. Waaay too short to seat the Berger 180 gr. VLD Hunting bullets I want to shoot in this gun out to the lands, where they like to be seated. But the Berger Reloading Manual showed some pretty impressive numbers with this bullet seated to this length so I decided to give it a try. The neck is .2783". This bullet is 1.524" long. That's .496" of bullet extending into the case body. No way it will shoot, right? Wrong. I'm pushing the bullets at almost 3000 fps and they're shooting in the .3s. So don't write a bullet off just because it's long. Could I get more speed out of the STW if I could use this case space for powder? Yeah, but since this is a hunting rifle, I want it to be a repeater. [/QUOTE]
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