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Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
Bullet seating depth the easy way
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<blockquote data-quote="shilen30" data-source="post: 34287" data-attributes="member: 2420"><p>One big problem is though that many bullets change quite a bit from lot to lot. I have a couple boxes of hornady bullets of the same item number but from different lots. Both lots have a different bullet profile(one lot is more "aerodynamic" than the other), and when I use the seating die to seat both, one is .02" farther off the lands than the other, and the seating plug still contacts the ogive far below the tip. You HAVE to adjust your seating plug for different lots, although I haven't had this problem with sierra MKs. Also, overall bullet length changes considerabley from lot to lot as well as from bullet to bullet in the same lot. Your idea does work pretty good overall though if you don't have the stoney point comparator system or the sinclair bullet comparator, but hey, what is $17 compared to hours of fudging around and wondering if your new lot of bullets is different enough that you will see a big change in accuracy without re-doing your test.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shilen30, post: 34287, member: 2420"] One big problem is though that many bullets change quite a bit from lot to lot. I have a couple boxes of hornady bullets of the same item number but from different lots. Both lots have a different bullet profile(one lot is more "aerodynamic" than the other), and when I use the seating die to seat both, one is .02" farther off the lands than the other, and the seating plug still contacts the ogive far below the tip. You HAVE to adjust your seating plug for different lots, although I haven't had this problem with sierra MKs. Also, overall bullet length changes considerabley from lot to lot as well as from bullet to bullet in the same lot. Your idea does work pretty good overall though if you don't have the stoney point comparator system or the sinclair bullet comparator, but hey, what is $17 compared to hours of fudging around and wondering if your new lot of bullets is different enough that you will see a big change in accuracy without re-doing your test. [/QUOTE]
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