Originally Posted by Ridge Runner

do this, take your ramrod with a flat jag, make sure your rifle is kocked, thenslide the rod down the muzzle till it hits the bolt face, with a felt marker put a mark on your ramrod, then put a bullet into the chamber, push it to the lands with a pencil, slide the rod down till you feel it touch the bullet, put another mark on your rod, measure between the marks, thats your max oal to the lands.
If ya load to the lands, you will have a lower MV and higher pressures with the same losd, so back off a bit and make sure its safe when first nudgeing the lands.
RR