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Old 11-23-2010 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Sniper151
I've found that .027 seems to be an all around good seating depth. I'll lube an empty bullet that I want to use in a sized, empty brass. Close the bolt slowly four times pulling the bullet out before each chambering and guage the depth each time then back it down to .027 from the lands. It seems to work well on all my reloads with no feeding problems and very good accuracy.
Let me get this right, your saying your able to seat a bullet in a sized case with the bolt alone? One if you able too, you would be jamming the bullet in the rifling .05" or more, two, you probably wouldn't be able to extract it without pulling the bullet out of the case.
 
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