Hello all, I've got a 6.5 savage stealth that is a superb gun. i've put several hundred rounds of ammo through it.
My load work up so far has ended up with the following
h4350 41.2g
ELDM hornady 140 gr bullets
starline small primer brass
fiocchi small magnum primer
velocity 2787fps 15 shots measured with magnetospeed and SD of 4(!!!!!)
getting 0.5 - 0.75 5 round groups with it

My biggest question is the OAL length. I've been making the cartridge length as long as the MDT magazine will allow. which is right around 2.81 with the ELDMs. I know this is quite a bit off the lands and I've been wondering if accuracy could be improved with another magazine that allows room to get closer to the lands. thoughts? When I seat a bullet in a fired case I get 2.943 for length. .0133 Seems like a HUGE jump!
I know I'm fighting 2 things here. One a factory barrel which typically has a longer throat, and a magazine that doesn't allow bullets to seat out very far. Any suggestions on how to get that closer, even the AICS mags won't allow a 2thousandths jump if that 2.943 measurement is correct.