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Where to start seating A-Max and SMK?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mikecr" data-source="post: 426618" data-attributes="member: 1521"><p>I pick a moderate load(nothing extreme) and adjust to determine best seating first.</p><p>Then go to powder adjustments.</p><p></p><p>I know of no reason that seating rules of thumb would hold from one gun to another(unless the same reamer was used). Seemingly forever shooters declared jammed as best for VLDs, -until Berger debunked this. Now people aren't so afraid of 'evil' VLDs.</p><p>But if you WANT your seating at some particular value, you can of course tweak powders to get the best THAT seating will produce for you. </p><p>I suspect this is most common...</p><p></p><p>My opposite approach on this is based on experience with one gun long ago. And it's worked with every other since.</p><p>One powder optimum seating point, held for another powder, and another. Even though velocities and performance(tune) were completely different between them, best seating point still held as best -for that chamber.</p><p>So I strongly feel that seating is not a tuning tweak at all, but a prerequisite to potential performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikecr, post: 426618, member: 1521"] I pick a moderate load(nothing extreme) and adjust to determine best seating first. Then go to powder adjustments. I know of no reason that seating rules of thumb would hold from one gun to another(unless the same reamer was used). Seemingly forever shooters declared jammed as best for VLDs, -until Berger debunked this. Now people aren't so afraid of 'evil' VLDs. But if you WANT your seating at some particular value, you can of course tweak powders to get the best THAT seating will produce for you. I suspect this is most common... My opposite approach on this is based on experience with one gun long ago. And it's worked with every other since. One powder optimum seating point, held for another powder, and another. Even though velocities and performance(tune) were completely different between them, best seating point still held as best -for that chamber. So I strongly feel that seating is not a tuning tweak at all, but a prerequisite to potential performance. [/QUOTE]
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