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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Bullet Depth, "off the lands" vrs OAL?
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 533884" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>I think you range is acceptable. I have factory rifles that that are over .150" off the lands and they are very accurate. It seems to depend on the particular bullet barrel combo. If the load is accurate to you standard, it's acceptable. Just make sue that if using a clip, that it will feed. For the real precision stuff I like using distance to the lands as opposed to OAL. It is typical for even some match bullets to be very consistent from the ogive to the lands but have variations in the overall length of the bullet. It seems that it's more difficult for the manufacturers to get the bullet tips consistent. This will give variations in yor distance to the lands. Tools are available that allow you to measure on the ogive for a particular caliber. I use a simple one that is shaped like a hex nut with a variety of holes on each flat to measure the popular calibers. it can be used with a standard caliper and allows me to measure to .001". Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 533884, member: 10291"] I think you range is acceptable. I have factory rifles that that are over .150" off the lands and they are very accurate. It seems to depend on the particular bullet barrel combo. If the load is accurate to you standard, it's acceptable. Just make sue that if using a clip, that it will feed. For the real precision stuff I like using distance to the lands as opposed to OAL. It is typical for even some match bullets to be very consistent from the ogive to the lands but have variations in the overall length of the bullet. It seems that it's more difficult for the manufacturers to get the bullet tips consistent. This will give variations in yor distance to the lands. Tools are available that allow you to measure on the ogive for a particular caliber. I use a simple one that is shaped like a hex nut with a variety of holes on each flat to measure the popular calibers. it can be used with a standard caliper and allows me to measure to .001". Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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