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Reloading
Find seating depth or powder charge first on VLD's?
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<blockquote data-quote="BrentM" data-source="post: 909375" data-attributes="member: 61747"><p>Fooling himself. LOL. OK. Perhaps we should just seat to the manual of your choice depth and use the most accurate powder charge they recommend and leave it all alone. ; )</p><p> </p><p>Now to be serious again.......I have no clue how you could get various readings if you are measuring Base to Ogive. If you are not measuring to the bullets ogive then you are fooling yourself. BULLETS have two main lengths of which you can measure. 1. Overall length of the bullet base to the bullet tip. 2. Bullet base to bullet ogive. IF you have a lot of bullets that are not consistent with the base to Ogive, then likely you have bearing surface issue. To measure that you can run two ogive guages back to back on the bullet and get a bearing surface measurment. If you are really picky you should sort the box of bullets and into lots of same bearing surface.</p><p> </p><p>Now, for proper measurement of the loaded round, you measure ogive of the bullet to the base of the case, and that better be giving you consistent readings. If not, the plunger in your die is probably contacting the tip of the bullet and therefore is not going to work well with VLD style bullets. You can remove the plunger and see if the depth of the plunger nose cone is contacting the ogive or the tip. </p><p> </p><p>Also, if the tip is contacting the plunger it is possible you are not producing straight ammo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrentM, post: 909375, member: 61747"] Fooling himself. LOL. OK. Perhaps we should just seat to the manual of your choice depth and use the most accurate powder charge they recommend and leave it all alone. ; ) Now to be serious again.......I have no clue how you could get various readings if you are measuring Base to Ogive. If you are not measuring to the bullets ogive then you are fooling yourself. BULLETS have two main lengths of which you can measure. 1. Overall length of the bullet base to the bullet tip. 2. Bullet base to bullet ogive. IF you have a lot of bullets that are not consistent with the base to Ogive, then likely you have bearing surface issue. To measure that you can run two ogive guages back to back on the bullet and get a bearing surface measurment. If you are really picky you should sort the box of bullets and into lots of same bearing surface. Now, for proper measurement of the loaded round, you measure ogive of the bullet to the base of the case, and that better be giving you consistent readings. If not, the plunger in your die is probably contacting the tip of the bullet and therefore is not going to work well with VLD style bullets. You can remove the plunger and see if the depth of the plunger nose cone is contacting the ogive or the tip. Also, if the tip is contacting the plunger it is possible you are not producing straight ammo. [/QUOTE]
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