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<blockquote data-quote="kolt1" data-source="post: 187762" data-attributes="member: 10381"><p>Hey Blaserman. Iam new to this site but have been doing some longrange shooting for awhile. Sounds like your putting together a nice rifle. As for some of your questions, I dont sort brass or bullets by weight or turn necks or anything like that. I leave that to all the benchrest guys in competition. I believe in loading the best rounds I can using the best components and finding what the rifle likes then shooting alot. I dont want to spend time turning necks when I could be at the range or out hunting. But building your own ammo can achieve great accuracy results with out that other extra work and I have had great results. As for seating bullets into the lands I dont. I usually get my OAL on a stoney point OAL guage and seat to .020 back off the lands. I feel it gives me a consistant starting point without having to use the bolt to cam the bullet into the chamber. And in hunting situations it works smooth and I dont worry about the bullet stuck in the rifling being pulled out a little if unloading and increasing the OAL of the case. Just a few thoughts, hope they help. By the way, the 7 STW can be finicky with bullet weights and types of powder. In my experience it seems to perform best when loaded to its potential. Its a thoroughbred, let'er run !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kolt1, post: 187762, member: 10381"] Hey Blaserman. Iam new to this site but have been doing some longrange shooting for awhile. Sounds like your putting together a nice rifle. As for some of your questions, I dont sort brass or bullets by weight or turn necks or anything like that. I leave that to all the benchrest guys in competition. I believe in loading the best rounds I can using the best components and finding what the rifle likes then shooting alot. I dont want to spend time turning necks when I could be at the range or out hunting. But building your own ammo can achieve great accuracy results with out that other extra work and I have had great results. As for seating bullets into the lands I dont. I usually get my OAL on a stoney point OAL guage and seat to .020 back off the lands. I feel it gives me a consistant starting point without having to use the bolt to cam the bullet into the chamber. And in hunting situations it works smooth and I dont worry about the bullet stuck in the rifling being pulled out a little if unloading and increasing the OAL of the case. Just a few thoughts, hope they help. By the way, the 7 STW can be finicky with bullet weights and types of powder. In my experience it seems to perform best when loaded to its potential. Its a thoroughbred, let'er run ! [/QUOTE]
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