saur, the 3 in and 2 out points to seating depth, check your throat length, establish a max COL and seat .006-,010 under that, see how it does.
RR
RR I called Hornady about seating depth and they said to seat the bullet no closer than .020 thousands off the lands because of pressure, can I go closer without excessive pressure? So far I have used a dial caliper to measure the coal and all were within .05 of an inch of each other. I do have a comparter(spelling) and have used it but usually I fist try to get a decent load worked up and then fine tune it. How critical is seating depth anyway? I have been able to get good results with other rifles but just going with the longest coal the book says with a dial caliper.