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- initialism Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English
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Examples
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The second problem, if someone else picks up one of your rounds and fires it, it just might blow their rifle up, do to their maximum OAL is less than yours.
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Imperceptible differences in OAL or head space, powder weight or the wrong bullets will make A LOT of difference down range!
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I returned to the gunshop the next day with some 257 AI and .257 Roberts ammo handloaded to about 2.91 to 2.93 in OAL.
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I returned to the gunshop the next day with some 257 AI and .257 Roberts ammo handloaded to about 2.91 to 2.93 in OAL.
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It also has a 3 magazine length that allows for longer OAL which is helpful in this caliber.
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I told E.R. Shaw I would attempt to feed some of my pre-existing .257 AI rounds into the rifle and see whether the ammos's OAL would be a problem, and if so, the company was going to receive its rifle back and I was going to receive, at a minimum, my money back.
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I told E.R. Shaw I would attempt to feed some of my pre-existing .257 AI rounds into the rifle and see whether the ammos's OAL would be a problem, and if so, the company was going to receive its rifle back and I was going to receive, at a minimum, my money back.
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In other words, the E.R. Shaw Mark VII rifle was shooting 100-grain Nosler Ballistic Tip handloads (all with the same exact H-100-V powder loading, same primers, and same exact cartridge OAL) through the same bullet hole.
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Yes, it would appear that E.R. Shaw, despite being less than forthcoming about ammunition feeding issues in its Mark VII long action at certain OAL cartridge lengths, and despite taking 8-9 months to produce the rifle, finally shipped me a very accurate rifle, one that also handles nicely and is even headspaced correctly to fit my pre-existing .257 AI ammo.
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Yes, it would appear that E.R. Shaw, despite being less than forthcoming about ammunition feeding issues in its Mark VII long action at certain OAL cartridge lengths, and despite taking 8-9 months to produce the rifle, finally shipped me a very accurate rifle, one that also handles nicely and is even headspaced correctly to fit my pre-existing .257 AI ammo.
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