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Reloading
Excessive bullet seating variance
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<blockquote data-quote="stanley52" data-source="post: 1227342" data-attributes="member: 62465"><p>That's a great idea for a comparator. Thanks! So the tip of the bullet is not touching any part of the stem. It seems to be drilled hollow. I checked some .308 dies I have from him and they came with a stem that had no plastic/nylon insert that seats the bullet and the stem was a wider diameter at the opening. I put that in instead and it seems to seat just fine now.... So in summary, all I can deduce is that if a seater stem tries to seat the bullet too closely to the meplate/tip then it may not seat a VLD properly even if the tip is clearing. Alternatively the plastic/nylon may give a little and cause the bullet to slip in the stem slightly and cause variations</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stanley52, post: 1227342, member: 62465"] That's a great idea for a comparator. Thanks! So the tip of the bullet is not touching any part of the stem. It seems to be drilled hollow. I checked some .308 dies I have from him and they came with a stem that had no plastic/nylon insert that seats the bullet and the stem was a wider diameter at the opening. I put that in instead and it seems to seat just fine now.... So in summary, all I can deduce is that if a seater stem tries to seat the bullet too closely to the meplate/tip then it may not seat a VLD properly even if the tip is clearing. Alternatively the plastic/nylon may give a little and cause the bullet to slip in the stem slightly and cause variations [/QUOTE]
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