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Seating depth? what's the limit?
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<blockquote data-quote="johnny k." data-source="post: 55256" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p><strong>Re: Seating depth? what\'s the limit?</strong></p><p></p><p>Al,</p><p> The "rule" that I go by on seating bullets out to meet the lands and groove is to keep at least half a caliber in the case neck. In the 7mm that would be .142". This should provide good neck tension and also keep your runout to an acceptable level ( under .003 for me).</p><p> I have had some bullets (40gr Nosler BT in my .22-250) that would never make it to .010" off the LaG. Accuracy suffered because I tried to run the bullet out as far as they would go. What I was doing was creating too much runout. When I seated the bullets deep enough in the case neck to eliminate runout I found accuracy was pretty darn good anyway, go figure. Keep us posted. Johnny K.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnny k., post: 55256, member: 2322"] [b]Re: Seating depth? what\'s the limit?[/b] Al, The "rule" that I go by on seating bullets out to meet the lands and groove is to keep at least half a caliber in the case neck. In the 7mm that would be .142". This should provide good neck tension and also keep your runout to an acceptable level ( under .003 for me). I have had some bullets (40gr Nosler BT in my .22-250) that would never make it to .010" off the LaG. Accuracy suffered because I tried to run the bullet out as far as they would go. What I was doing was creating too much runout. When I seated the bullets deep enough in the case neck to eliminate runout I found accuracy was pretty darn good anyway, go figure. Keep us posted. Johnny K. [/QUOTE]
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