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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Establishing Bullet Seating Depth
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1400327" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>timberelk</p><p></p><p>What you did will work fine to establish the max COAL for a given bullet. You don't need to pull firing pins or ejectors. I do similar for any bullets I load - but I make tooling by taking a case ready for loading but unprimed and split the neck with a hacksaw, remove burrs inside and out. Put a bullet in the case and chamber. Then measure the COAL. That is the maximum length that round can be with that bullet without jamming. I set neck tension of the tooling so I can barely pull the bullet with bare hands (using rubberized gloves). If it gets too loose at some point you can always tighten it back up by running it through your resizing die again. This tooling is also useful to setup your press when ready to load live ammo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1400327, member: 63138"] timberelk What you did will work fine to establish the max COAL for a given bullet. You don't need to pull firing pins or ejectors. I do similar for any bullets I load - but I make tooling by taking a case ready for loading but unprimed and split the neck with a hacksaw, remove burrs inside and out. Put a bullet in the case and chamber. Then measure the COAL. That is the maximum length that round can be with that bullet without jamming. I set neck tension of the tooling so I can barely pull the bullet with bare hands (using rubberized gloves). If it gets too loose at some point you can always tighten it back up by running it through your resizing die again. This tooling is also useful to setup your press when ready to load live ammo. [/QUOTE]
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