Bullet hitting lands

[Ganderite]

With the exception of a couple of actually helpful posts (thanks Ganderite and Hand of Zeus), this thread has been nothing but pointless bashing. I've reloaded thousands of rounds without issue before. I've only ever posted in this sub-forum before in the "what have you reloaded today?" thread and asking for a couple of recipes. This was my FIRST actual issue, so to those haters out there, YES I DO KNOW WHAT I'M DOING.

As for the info that I haven't given, it was just to protect the firearms manufacture as this forum is full of idiots who love to jump to conclusions and bash people and companies left and right. In any case, it seems like actual info is needed... The gun is a Cadex Shadow chambered in 408 Cheytac. There is little to no info online about this caliber when it comes to the COAL. Oh and thanks 9.3mauser, you're right, it is Spitzer Boat Tail and not Soft Point, I was half asleep when I wrote that bit and the Spitzer thing didn't even cross my mind at the time.

At the risk of repeating myself, each rifle is different, so any writing about COAL is about as relevant as what colour the rifle is painted.

Even if you and I have a pair of Rem 700's with consecutive serial numbers, our OAL will be quite different. My rifle has 4000 rounds through it, with a lot of throat erosion. before i set the barrel back, my COAL was much longer. Then I set it back and re chambered with the Obermyer Match profile, and now the OAL is a quarter inch shorter.

Each of us has to measure our chambers and set our own OAL.

This is Loading 101, so some here were concerned that you did not know the basics.

Now that we know the caliber of your rifle, we can guess the chamber was cut with a custom reamer, with a throat to suit a particular application. My 6.5 mm match rifles have reamers that cut very long throats so as to not use up powder space with 140 gr bullets. My OAL would be very different than a factory 260Rem.

 

[thepolinator]

Sorry OP, but if you set your oal to under Saami spec and the bullet still got stuck in the lands, it means your chamber is no saami compliant. Thus your rifle is not up to spec.

 

[mod7rem]

With the exception of a couple of actually helpful posts (thanks Ganderite and Hand of Zeus), this thread has been nothing but pointless bashing. I've reloaded thousands of rounds without issue before. I've only ever posted in this sub-forum before in the "what have you reloaded today?" thread and asking for a couple of recipes. This was my FIRST actual issue, so to those haters out there, YES I DO KNOW WHAT I'M DOING.

As for the info that I haven't given, it was just to protect the firearms manufacture as this forum is full of idiots who love to jump to conclusions and bash people and companies left and right. In any case, it seems like actual info is needed... The gun is a Cadex Shadow chambered in 408 Cheytac. There is little to no info online about this caliber when it comes to the COAL. Oh and thanks 9.3mauser, you're right, it is Spitzer Boat Tail and not Soft Point, I was half asleep when I wrote that bit and the Spitzer thing didn't even cross my mind at the time.

I think you may be over reacting a little.
I'm not reading a whole lot of hating or bashing in this thread. In my replies I said you need to measure the max loaded length for your rifle and bullet because of different bullet shapes. When I listed some of the down sides of possibly having a custom chamber and throat, you replied that it wasn't a custom and that it was a factory rifle chambered in a wildcat cartridge. I would say you do have a custom chamber. The statements you made and the fact that you didn't feel the need to measure the max loaded length for your rifle and bullet, does make you look like a beginner and thats why people responded the way they did.

Good luck with your rifle.

 

[ultimate_monkey]

I’ve skimmed this thread but so it may have been said , knowing that the maker is cadex it’s probably not an issue with the rifle per-say , the chamber was probably cut with a custom reamer meant to keep the chamber tight and short when compared to mass production spec . I’m sure a quick email or call to cadex would be able to tell you this. Ganderite has basically covered all that needs to be said, also what caliper are you using? Are you sure it hasn’t #### the bed.....


It’s like a production rem700 compared to custom that used a spec reamer . What doesn’t fit in the one off build has miles befor the lands in a mass production chamber

 

[photog_shooter]

I’m sure a quick email or call to cadex would be able to tell you this. Ganderite has basically covered all that needs to be said, also what caliper are you using? Are you sure it hasn’t #### the bed.....

I did email Cadex right after I got home from the day of shooting. They're on holidays though til next week so I'll have to wait to hear back from them. As for the caliper, I used 2 different ones and they both showed the same measurements.