RE: Browning A-Bolt 300 WSM Overall Length?
Your just not going to get that bullet near the lands on an Abolt because of the magazine. In the case of a 300 wsm setting the OAL to 2.860 and using H4350 gives me more then satisfactory accuracy. Now a 300 wsm Model 70 that I sold a friend we set it at .020 off the lands with a Nosler Partition and same load used in the Browning. It shot fine, not as well as the Browning but still ok. That gun had bedding issues because of its cheap stock. I have yet to see a Abolt that doesn't shoot irregardless of whether factory or handloads were used.