Saul
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You can fireform in either chambering. From what I have read, the Nosler design allows a tighter crush fit when fireforming without web stretch.not so.
in their own right they are both equal.
the big advantage of the original is that std 280 rem ammunition can be fired in the ackley chamber.
it will just fireform with no headspace issues.
thgis is because the old chamber was a crush fit on the std case, as were all ackleys, 250/300, 25/06, 30/06, 270, 220 swift etc.
the nosler version has longer headspace, and the only way to fireform std cases is to seat bullets hard into the rifling with much neck tension.
firing a 280 rem, or an original ackley round in the nosler chamber will present incipient head seperations.
the ability to fire std rounds in a proper ackley chambers offers backup should you run out of ammo.
nosler should not have named the cartridge as ackley improved as it is not such.
rookhawk is right.
the original "beanfield rifles" built by kenny jarrett were popular in original 280 ackley.
from those rifles came the sendero type of rifle, which is basically a vermint rifle in a hunting rifle calibre so popular today.
they are absolute pigs of things to shoot offhand, as the balance so badly.
bruce.