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https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/hornady-a-max-bullets cheaper at bass pro and if you order 2 you would get free shipping.

Does not surprise me. Anymore midway is an absolute last resort for me. Their prices have been ridiculous since this all started and they did the same thing the last time it happened also

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Are these brux barrels? What dia is the shank and how long.

And midway is the new gunbroker.

45 for both ABLR?

Not sure if it has been asked yet but what is your neck tension. If your neck tension is super light maybe that could be playing into your problem

I am the same. I did try it when I first started loading years ago. Like I said earlier it has never worked out for me as a 1:1 relationship. just because my lands erode .01 if I seat my bullet out .01 longer the load will go to crap. I have had barrels that lost .05 of lands and still shot...

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I agree. I might be wrong but the method i explained has works for every rifle I have loaded for. Because even after all that work you still have to do seating depth testing. If there was a standard seating depth of the land that worked. I would do it. There is not. Every rifle is...

I have watched eriks video. Pretty much what I have been doing for years. Only difference is I normally just load a bullet in an empty case with base of the bullet near the neck/shoulder junction. Load in chamber if it doesn't jam i start seating depth testing. If it jams i seat .020 deeper...

So I will admit, I just had to look up the wheeler method. Holy crap thats a ridiculous amount of work to find a number that really means nothing toward the end result.

Is the rifle shooting good? If so who cares what the numbe is. I used to be just like this until I realized this is not a 1:1 thing were dealing with. Most of the time just because your lands may move doesn't always mean the bullet needs to follow. I have a 243 that's land measurement has...

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may want to try seating a few in the lands firmly, as one would form AI brass. Doing this will help keep the base of the cartridge firmly seated against the bolt for fire forming. There are others that know more about this than I, Maybe one will chime in about this.