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OAL too long for magazine?
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<blockquote data-quote="boomtube" data-source="post: 549981" data-attributes="member: 9215"><p><em>"Barnes recommends starting seating depth at .050"</em> (and backing off) <em>. Also <u>I would have to take issue with the general consensus of .005" to .010" as being the best</u> "</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Exactly so. Most of what we read about seating that long is BS, based on a little bit of knowledge of what BR shooters do with a near total lack of understanding WHY they do it, therefore with a near total lack of understanding that it rarely applies to those of us using factory rigs with common cases and hunting bullets.</p><p> </p><p>Reminton's hunting rifles are made for hunting, not target shooting. It's often possible to get very good HUNTING accuracy from them but it's rare any factory rifle will consistantly beat MOA by much. No matter the chamber and throat, the quality of the barrels simply isn't all that great; not <em>bad</em>, just not great. A lot more fabulous sub-MOA rifles exist on the web than on the range!</p><p> </p><p>I usually find best accuracy seating from at least .025" off the lands to as much as four times that much, sometimes more. There is a LOT more to obtaining good hunting rifle accuracy than pointless attempts to match BR seating depths, we live with what we have or get them rebarreled ... and that's no guarantee of high precision, every barrel is different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boomtube, post: 549981, member: 9215"] [I]"Barnes recommends starting seating depth at .050"[/I] (and backing off) [I]. Also [U]I would have to take issue with the general consensus of .005" to .010" as being the best[/U] "[/I] Exactly so. Most of what we read about seating that long is BS, based on a little bit of knowledge of what BR shooters do with a near total lack of understanding WHY they do it, therefore with a near total lack of understanding that it rarely applies to those of us using factory rigs with common cases and hunting bullets. Reminton's hunting rifles are made for hunting, not target shooting. It's often possible to get very good HUNTING accuracy from them but it's rare any factory rifle will consistantly beat MOA by much. No matter the chamber and throat, the quality of the barrels simply isn't all that great; not [I]bad[/I], just not great. A lot more fabulous sub-MOA rifles exist on the web than on the range! I usually find best accuracy seating from at least .025" off the lands to as much as four times that much, sometimes more. There is a LOT more to obtaining good hunting rifle accuracy than pointless attempts to match BR seating depths, we live with what we have or get them rebarreled ... and that's no guarantee of high precision, every barrel is different. [/QUOTE]
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