Sako 85 22-250 with a 1:14 twist and am loading Hornady 50 grain V-Max. My loading manuals calls for an OAL of 2.350. This round shoots very well for the “first time out” and at 50 yards had several interlocking groups with one four round ragged hole group. But I did notice a few fliers that opened the group up to about 3/4 of an inch. Today, I measured the difference between this 2.350 round and the lands and came up with an astounding 2.520 which I measured three times to be sure. I loaded a dummy round to 2.500. The bullet is hardly seated in the brass and doesn‘t touch the lands. Any suggestions and advice would be welcome as I feel uncomfortable loading at 2.500 or I’m I being over cautious? Guess I can't get over how far back from the lands the bullet is…………

I've found it very common to have extremely deep throats in factory barrels, and some bullets not being able to come close to them. I think the manufactors do this because of the wide varity of bullets available and the manufactor doesn't want to liability associated with one being over pressured from being forced against the lands.

I'm not sure if they still do it but Weatherby used to put an enormous amount of jump in their barrels, that's how they were able to advertise the higher velocities they got.

I usually find it works better to seat the bullet deep enough to align it in the case, so it can stabilize it, rather than barely catching the bullet, where it can easily be miss aligned and come out wobbling before it even gets to the lands.