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Reloading
What first? Powder or seating depth?
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<blockquote data-quote="Chris89lx" data-source="post: 555318" data-attributes="member: 28728"><p>Finally had a chance to experiment with an OAL that fits in my magazine.</p><p> </p><p>Made up a dummy round and found that a 3.400" OAL fits in my magazine nicely with a little clearance and cycles through the gun just fine. (3.290" is book spec)</p><p> </p><p>After that I wanted to know how far off the rifling the bullit was sitting.</p><p> </p><p>I dropped a bullit into the chamber but when I tipped the barrol up the bullit would fall out. I dropped it in again and with a very light tap of the barrol on the carpeted floor. The bullit was stuck and would not fall out when I tipped the barrol up. </p><p>Then I used the rod from my cleaning kit and ran it up the barrol ever so slowly until I felt it touch the tip of the bullit. I then put a score mark with a utility knife blade on the rod. After that a slight tap with the rod and the bullit came out.</p><p>I then chambered in my dummy round. I took my cleaning rod again and slid it into the barrol untill it touched the tip of the dummy round. I once again scored a mark on the rod at the end of the barrol with a utility knife blade.</p><p> </p><p>I know this method is not the most acurate for measuring this but I think it worked pretty good.</p><p>The measurement between the two score marks was approx .060"</p><p> </p><p>I'm not sure if I will even play with the seating depth. But a least I know approximitly were it is.</p><p>Time to start loading and testing.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for the great info everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris89lx, post: 555318, member: 28728"] Finally had a chance to experiment with an OAL that fits in my magazine. Made up a dummy round and found that a 3.400" OAL fits in my magazine nicely with a little clearance and cycles through the gun just fine. (3.290" is book spec) After that I wanted to know how far off the rifling the bullit was sitting. I dropped a bullit into the chamber but when I tipped the barrol up the bullit would fall out. I dropped it in again and with a very light tap of the barrol on the carpeted floor. The bullit was stuck and would not fall out when I tipped the barrol up. Then I used the rod from my cleaning kit and ran it up the barrol ever so slowly until I felt it touch the tip of the bullit. I then put a score mark with a utility knife blade on the rod. After that a slight tap with the rod and the bullit came out. I then chambered in my dummy round. I took my cleaning rod again and slid it into the barrol untill it touched the tip of the dummy round. I once again scored a mark on the rod at the end of the barrol with a utility knife blade. I know this method is not the most acurate for measuring this but I think it worked pretty good. The measurement between the two score marks was approx .060" I'm not sure if I will even play with the seating depth. But a least I know approximitly were it is. Time to start loading and testing. Thanks for the great info everyone. [/QUOTE]
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