Just making convo. I got some 300gr bergers for the 338LM the other day. I have been shooting the SMK. I knew the berger was longer but also know it shoots better than the SMK. So I wanted to try em. I was glad to see that savage did there homework when sizing the throte to the mag or the mag to the throte I should say. Seems like with a lot of magizine rifles, you are not able to seat the bullet close to the lands and still fit in mag. Got mine .020 off and 91.5gr retumbo and bullet run out .0015 and under. guess we see how they do.