[Whitecloud]

Understood,… I did attempt to do that and got mixed results with measurements falling on the fence in regards to whether or not the long action mags would be of help. Many comments on the web (always taken with grain of salt) suggest that Tikka's in general have a long leade. Was just wondering if there was a general consensus among Tikka T3 243 owners that the leade is long enough to justify the use of the long action mag when loading the longer bullets in order to maintain usable powder space. I appreciate your response and you are correct. I fully intend to get a accurate length measured prior to any loading. At this point I'm contemplating setting funds aside for the long action mags and consider this a “preliminary” inquiry.