RE: Loading Close to the Lands
I guess I am fortunate to have purchased most of my bolt rifles a while back. I have no trouble in seating the bullets out to the lands and still getting them into the magazine. Of course, I own rifles in similar action lengths....270's, 30-06's, a 280 and a 25-06. I know some friends who have guns in varmint calibers who can't get them out to the lands. Most of them just put a shell in the chamber and don't feed them from the magazine while hunting wood chucks or praire dogs,so it is a moot point for them.
Mr. C