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Old 01-10-2004, 05:57 PM
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Clint.
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Default RE: Bullet Seating Depth

Thanks all.
One further question: Some of you wrote about seating the bullet at .030-.040 away from the lands.

How do you go about measuring that?

Do you deliberately seat a bullet in an uncharged case and then force it into the rifle so that the lands force the bullet to its maximun seating depth?
Do you then reduce that by measuring the resulting cartridge with calipers and seating .030-.040 deeper?

Or is there a better and easier way?

Clint
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