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<blockquote data-quote="woods" data-source="post: 416548" data-attributes="member: 6042"><p>A little bit too much math and information for me to follow completely, especially with 2 guns. Every gun is different but IMO you COULD follow these basic rules:</p><p></p><p>1. Load no longer than .025" less than the magazine length. That should keep recoil from your bullet tips</p><p>2. Load no closer than .020" off the lands. IMO in the zone from .020" off the lands to seating into the lands, seating depth consistancy becomes hyper critical and a seating a few thousandths one way or the other will have a more drastic effect on POI</p><p>3. With monometals like Barnes start .050" off the lands</p><p>4. Stick with one seating depth until you have run up the powder charge ladder to find the best powder charge, then you can experiment with changing seating depth.</p><p>5. If you want to change seating depth, go away from the lands in at least .010" increments and it would save time and barrel wear to go in leaps of +.025" each time</p><p></p><p>For me, I start at .025" off the lands (when it will fit the mag) and 90% of the time find a powder charge that will fill my accuracy needs (hunting bullets in hunting rifles). Time then to load a bunch and do a bunch of long range shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woods, post: 416548, member: 6042"] A little bit too much math and information for me to follow completely, especially with 2 guns. Every gun is different but IMO you COULD follow these basic rules: 1. Load no longer than .025" less than the magazine length. That should keep recoil from your bullet tips 2. Load no closer than .020" off the lands. IMO in the zone from .020" off the lands to seating into the lands, seating depth consistancy becomes hyper critical and a seating a few thousandths one way or the other will have a more drastic effect on POI 3. With monometals like Barnes start .050" off the lands 4. Stick with one seating depth until you have run up the powder charge ladder to find the best powder charge, then you can experiment with changing seating depth. 5. If you want to change seating depth, go away from the lands in at least .010" increments and it would save time and barrel wear to go in leaps of +.025" each time For me, I start at .025" off the lands (when it will fit the mag) and 90% of the time find a powder charge that will fill my accuracy needs (hunting bullets in hunting rifles). Time then to load a bunch and do a bunch of long range shooting. [/QUOTE]
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