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Bullet ogive differences
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<blockquote data-quote="fishingstockwell" data-source="post: 1208427" data-attributes="member: 96590"><p>I believe that the seating die contacts the bullet below the tip and above the ogive If you set the die to seat the bullet .010 off with one of the short bearing surface bullets and then loaded a bullet with .036 longer bearing surface, the base of your case to your o-give would be .036 longer and would push your ogive .026 into the lands (assuming the .036 longer bearing surface was due to the ogive being farther forward on the bullet and not the bowtail being shorter). </p><p></p><p>If you measured every bullet with one of the base of the case to O-give with one of the comparators and they were the same, then that isn't the problem. If you set the die with a shorter bearing surface bullet and then loaded the longer bearing surface bullets without moving the die and measuring each one to with the comparator, it probably is the problem. </p><p></p><p>Just my best guess, not knowing your reloading practices. I had problems last year when I got a box of bullets with a lot of variance in the o-give to tip. I was loading to max magazine length and must have started with one of the shorter bullets. I checked the base to ogive measurement on every bullet, but not the COAL. When I was done, half the bullets fit in the magazine and half didn't. Pulled them all and found out that although they were very consistent from the base to o-give, they had a huge variance from the tip to o-give, making many too long to properly fit in the magazine. Made me mad. Threw away all the bullets, opened another box and the problem went away. </p><p></p><p>Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishingstockwell, post: 1208427, member: 96590"] I believe that the seating die contacts the bullet below the tip and above the ogive If you set the die to seat the bullet .010 off with one of the short bearing surface bullets and then loaded a bullet with .036 longer bearing surface, the base of your case to your o-give would be .036 longer and would push your ogive .026 into the lands (assuming the .036 longer bearing surface was due to the ogive being farther forward on the bullet and not the bowtail being shorter). If you measured every bullet with one of the base of the case to O-give with one of the comparators and they were the same, then that isn't the problem. If you set the die with a shorter bearing surface bullet and then loaded the longer bearing surface bullets without moving the die and measuring each one to with the comparator, it probably is the problem. Just my best guess, not knowing your reloading practices. I had problems last year when I got a box of bullets with a lot of variance in the o-give to tip. I was loading to max magazine length and must have started with one of the shorter bullets. I checked the base to ogive measurement on every bullet, but not the COAL. When I was done, half the bullets fit in the magazine and half didn't. Pulled them all and found out that although they were very consistent from the base to o-give, they had a huge variance from the tip to o-give, making many too long to properly fit in the magazine. Made me mad. Threw away all the bullets, opened another box and the problem went away. Matt [/QUOTE]
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