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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Bullet comparator needed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 991773" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Actually funny you should say that...I never lock down the locking ring because I measure every round to the tip..which will change when the comparator comes in but my current process is...Lets say I am targeting 3.308 for seating. I set the die up backed all the way out and put the first round in. I raise the ram...then bring the die down to touch the bullet. Then lower the ram, and screw the die in a few turns to seat the bullet initially. I then continue turning in the die until I get the bullet to say over all length of 3.410. this usually only takes me a couple presses. Now comes the somewhat tedious part, I then raise and lower the ram while doing 1/4-1/8 turns of the die until I hit exactly 3.308 with that initial round. I take that round out and put the next one in, however I back out the die 1/4 turn because I have seen variences in overall length when locking the die down. I then seat the next bullet...it will typically be very close say for instance 3.338...I will then just turn the die a hair maybe 2-3 times before I get this next round seated to exactly 3.308 on my calipers. I am not sure if this repeated seating of the bullets has an effect on accuracy or if I am simply taking a lot of time doing it this way which i do not mind since I do not shoot a lot...again these are hunting rifles.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 991773, member: 52437"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Actually funny you should say that...I never lock down the locking ring because I measure every round to the tip..which will change when the comparator comes in but my current process is...Lets say I am targeting 3.308 for seating. I set the die up backed all the way out and put the first round in. I raise the ram...then bring the die down to touch the bullet. Then lower the ram, and screw the die in a few turns to seat the bullet initially. I then continue turning in the die until I get the bullet to say over all length of 3.410. this usually only takes me a couple presses. Now comes the somewhat tedious part, I then raise and lower the ram while doing 1/4-1/8 turns of the die until I hit exactly 3.308 with that initial round. I take that round out and put the next one in, however I back out the die 1/4 turn because I have seen variences in overall length when locking the die down. I then seat the next bullet...it will typically be very close say for instance 3.338...I will then just turn the die a hair maybe 2-3 times before I get this next round seated to exactly 3.308 on my calipers. I am not sure if this repeated seating of the bullets has an effect on accuracy or if I am simply taking a lot of time doing it this way which i do not mind since I do not shoot a lot...again these are hunting rifles.[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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