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Dumb question about seating depth
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<blockquote data-quote="SidecarFlip" data-source="post: 1452494" data-attributes="member: 39764"><p>Olive's are for Martini's. You mean <strong>Ogive</strong>.... Hornady offers a nice set of gauge plugs for different calibers and they come with the attachment anvil as well for about 30 bucks. Of course you still need a good set of dial or digital calipers. I tend to machine my own plugs from aluminum bar stock but for the price, I cannot machine the anvil and the plugs any cheaper.</p><p></p><p>I make all my own seater stems as well but that is another animal.</p><p></p><p>Using a SAMMI seat measurement works fine for non tipped boolets but a tipped boolet will not yield a consistent measurement because the tips are soft, which is why the CBTO measurement is so important and consistent. Even a solid tipped boolet like a Berger VLD will measure inconsistently because the tips aren't all the same (if measured from the tip to the base of the case) unless you uniform all the meplats before loading them, which I do anyway with a John Whidden pointing tool but I still gauge off the ogive as a matter of consistency.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SidecarFlip, post: 1452494, member: 39764"] Olive's are for Martini's. You mean [B]Ogive[/B].... Hornady offers a nice set of gauge plugs for different calibers and they come with the attachment anvil as well for about 30 bucks. Of course you still need a good set of dial or digital calipers. I tend to machine my own plugs from aluminum bar stock but for the price, I cannot machine the anvil and the plugs any cheaper. I make all my own seater stems as well but that is another animal. Using a SAMMI seat measurement works fine for non tipped boolets but a tipped boolet will not yield a consistent measurement because the tips are soft, which is why the CBTO measurement is so important and consistent. Even a solid tipped boolet like a Berger VLD will measure inconsistently because the tips aren't all the same (if measured from the tip to the base of the case) unless you uniform all the meplats before loading them, which I do anyway with a John Whidden pointing tool but I still gauge off the ogive as a matter of consistency. [/QUOTE]
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