Quote Originally Posted by amc577 View Post
Pay no attention to the COL figures in the reloading books...make up ypur own dummy rounds using whatever bullets you have and ensure they will chamber in your rifle...I well remember a chap turning up to the range with a £4000 .308 rifle and 100 rounds carefully handloaded...none would chamber....he had simply used the COL shown in his reloading book...an awful lot of knocking out required...incidentally get a decent kinetic hammer.

amc577
That chap was badly advised, if the COAL length was the reason the rounds refused to chamber he could have just put them back in the seating die and seated the bullets a bit deeper without needing to pull the rounds.