Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Can a Case be too Short?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="del2les" data-source="post: 1569428" data-attributes="member: 9299"><p>Depends. I routinely seat bullets at or just above the neck/shoulder joint with exceptional accuracy and to take full advantage of the powder capacity for velocity. If you are not using a heavy recoiling round/rifle combo and neck is sized for sufficient hold, you should be ok.</p><p></p><p>In more than a few of my BR and varmint rifles, either I partial neck size only or if it improved group size I use a neck collet sizer specific for the tension desired. In one BR rifle, a 1/3 neck size gave the best groups, so obviously little to zero tension on the remaining neck/bullet mattered little.</p><p></p><p>Uniformity seems to be the biggest factor, so unless heavy tension is required to maintain bullet seating during recoil or to insure uniform ignition of a powder charge before bullet movement, you can have very good results with minimum bullet seating depths.</p><p></p><p>So the answer is: It depends on several factors. Try it and see which is better for your situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="del2les, post: 1569428, member: 9299"] Depends. I routinely seat bullets at or just above the neck/shoulder joint with exceptional accuracy and to take full advantage of the powder capacity for velocity. If you are not using a heavy recoiling round/rifle combo and neck is sized for sufficient hold, you should be ok. In more than a few of my BR and varmint rifles, either I partial neck size only or if it improved group size I use a neck collet sizer specific for the tension desired. In one BR rifle, a 1/3 neck size gave the best groups, so obviously little to zero tension on the remaining neck/bullet mattered little. Uniformity seems to be the biggest factor, so unless heavy tension is required to maintain bullet seating during recoil or to insure uniform ignition of a powder charge before bullet movement, you can have very good results with minimum bullet seating depths. So the answer is: It depends on several factors. Try it and see which is better for your situation. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Can a Case be too Short?
Top