RE: im a beginer and have a question about seating my bullets
I may someday get a stoney point OAL guage, but until then I use this method; I size a fired case just a little ways down the neck, just enough to loosley hold the bullet. You should be able to push the bullet in with your hand. Seat a bullet into this case with your seating die adjusted way back from where you would normally end up. Chamber this round with no primer or powder, the bolt should seat the bullet to where it would be if you wanted it to contact the throat of the rifling. Measure the bullet tip to give you the OAL,(over all length), of a bullet in contact with the beginning of the rifling. Now run that shell into the seater die, bring the seating stem down to contact the bullet. Turning the seating stem down further will give you an idea how much to turn it to get .010, .020, etc. from the lands.