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<blockquote data-quote="rcoody" data-source="post: 1105147" data-attributes="member: 91090"><p>You are losing your marbles! Now that factory ammo could easily be a tenth or more off the lands but not an inch. Are you using a bullet comparator on your calipers or are you measuring to the tip of the bullet.</p><p> </p><p>checking the overall length of your rifles chamber can be done without the stoney point but it sure isn't easy. You have to have the brass tight to the shoulder it is headspacing off of. You have to be able to push the bullet up tight to the lands. And then you have to be able to get all this out of your chamber intact where you can measure it.</p><p> </p><p>Old timey way is to seat a bullet long with light neck tension and chamber it. Let the lands push the bullet back in the brass. Problem with this method is usually the bullet sticks in the lands and pulls out of the case. Then you try it again pushing the bullet and case out with a cleaning rod. You have to do it several times and get the same measurement before having any confidence you are right</p><p> </p><p>OALG is cheap and easy once you figure it out</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rcoody, post: 1105147, member: 91090"] You are losing your marbles! Now that factory ammo could easily be a tenth or more off the lands but not an inch. Are you using a bullet comparator on your calipers or are you measuring to the tip of the bullet. checking the overall length of your rifles chamber can be done without the stoney point but it sure isn't easy. You have to have the brass tight to the shoulder it is headspacing off of. You have to be able to push the bullet up tight to the lands. And then you have to be able to get all this out of your chamber intact where you can measure it. Old timey way is to seat a bullet long with light neck tension and chamber it. Let the lands push the bullet back in the brass. Problem with this method is usually the bullet sticks in the lands and pulls out of the case. Then you try it again pushing the bullet and case out with a cleaning rod. You have to do it several times and get the same measurement before having any confidence you are right OALG is cheap and easy once you figure it out [/QUOTE]
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