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Reloading
OAL Question
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<blockquote data-quote="boomtube" data-source="post: 282983" data-attributes="member: 9215"><p>OAL for a rifle load that feeds from a magazine only matters that it feeds properly. Your chamber ONLY cares for where the moving bullet strikes the rifling, it doesn't know or care how much further any other part of the bullet sticks into empty barrel space so OAL for accuracy isn't the correct concern.</p><p> </p><p>Bullets vary in lenght, base to the tip. The point of rifling contact on the ogive's curve is the important part, not the tip, so that's what we use as the seating reference for best, or at least most consistant, seating. And the best seating-contact length varies a lot, rifle by rifle and bullet by bullet. </p><p> </p><p>Trying to get consistant OAL's from base to the tip will lead you on a merry chase!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boomtube, post: 282983, member: 9215"] OAL for a rifle load that feeds from a magazine only matters that it feeds properly. Your chamber ONLY cares for where the moving bullet strikes the rifling, it doesn't know or care how much further any other part of the bullet sticks into empty barrel space so OAL for accuracy isn't the correct concern. Bullets vary in lenght, base to the tip. The point of rifling contact on the ogive's curve is the important part, not the tip, so that's what we use as the seating reference for best, or at least most consistant, seating. And the best seating-contact length varies a lot, rifle by rifle and bullet by bullet. Trying to get consistant OAL's from base to the tip will lead you on a merry chase! [/QUOTE]
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