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COAL Help for 338
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<blockquote data-quote="rscott5028" data-source="post: 668918" data-attributes="member: 24624"><p>Max COAL in your loading manual comes from the SAMMI specification that is used to ensure that ammo will fit in and feed easily and safely in all factory rifles. </p><p> </p><p>COAL in your loading guide and in the SAMMI spec is also based on the overall length from case head to bullet tip rather than the ogive. </p><p> </p><p>While seating bullets shallow or deep affects containment and hence, pressures, you should use the measurement for your rifle as you have done. But, you simply need to back down from the max load and work up safely for your rifle. </p><p> </p><p>If the desired seating depth that you've come up with means that the loaded cartridge doesn't fit your magazine, then you will either need to (a) use it as a single shot, (b) find a seating depth that your rifle likes which allows the cartridge to fit in the mag well, or (c) investigate magazine modifications that allow for longer cartridges. </p><p> </p><p>-- richard</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rscott5028, post: 668918, member: 24624"] Max COAL in your loading manual comes from the SAMMI specification that is used to ensure that ammo will fit in and feed easily and safely in all factory rifles. COAL in your loading guide and in the SAMMI spec is also based on the overall length from case head to bullet tip rather than the ogive. While seating bullets shallow or deep affects containment and hence, pressures, you should use the measurement for your rifle as you have done. But, you simply need to back down from the max load and work up safely for your rifle. If the desired seating depth that you've come up with means that the loaded cartridge doesn't fit your magazine, then you will either need to (a) use it as a single shot, (b) find a seating depth that your rifle likes which allows the cartridge to fit in the mag well, or (c) investigate magazine modifications that allow for longer cartridges. -- richard [/QUOTE]
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