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Old 04-10-2005 | 02:48 PM
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Default RE: bullet seating depth?

Agree with Roskoe! This way it keeps the free bore to a minimum, but safe.
I find that Weatherby ammo is seated to much and has excessive free bore.
The bullet has to jump to far to print on rifling and will not print straight.
Best to reload any factory ammo with with excessive free bore, backing off
.10 or untill it clears the magazine. There are other ways to do this, but I
started using the Stoney Point free bore gage. IMO, I think it's the best way
to bullet seat reloaded ammo.I use the Redding Bench Bullet Seater and set it
at .10 under bullet/rifling contact and adding .001 till it clear's the magazine.
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