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Help!! Berger seating depth, distance to lands??
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2113370" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>When you say re-test, do you mean re-measure? Or actually change your load. I'm about the fifth person to say this, but if the load shoots well you do not need to re-test everything. You can remeasure everything to describe the ogive-to-lands measurement more accurately and precisely, but a better measurement does not a better load make. I wouldn't change my CBTO seating depth on a load that shoots just because I was changing how I measure the rifle.</p><p></p><p>I'm also of the school of thought to jam a bullet into the lands hard to measure. All this mess about kissing and light pressure misses the point that when you pull the trigger the bullet is rather violently jammed into the bore, so what matters is where the real point of resistance is. Stick the SOB in there hard. Call it +0.020" jammed if that makes you feel better, but to people who say "you don't know exactly where you are" I say I know exactly where I am: at the end where you can't load any longer. Everything else is back from there, it only moves one direction away. To me, that is 0.000 right there, and I get measurements that are repeatable and consistent down to the thousandths that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2113370, member: 116181"] When you say re-test, do you mean re-measure? Or actually change your load. I'm about the fifth person to say this, but if the load shoots well you do not need to re-test everything. You can remeasure everything to describe the ogive-to-lands measurement more accurately and precisely, but a better measurement does not a better load make. I wouldn't change my CBTO seating depth on a load that shoots just because I was changing how I measure the rifle. I'm also of the school of thought to jam a bullet into the lands hard to measure. All this mess about kissing and light pressure misses the point that when you pull the trigger the bullet is rather violently jammed into the bore, so what matters is where the real point of resistance is. Stick the SOB in there hard. Call it +0.020" jammed if that makes you feel better, but to people who say "you don't know exactly where you are" I say I know exactly where I am: at the end where you can't load any longer. Everything else is back from there, it only moves one direction away. To me, that is 0.000 right there, and I get measurements that are repeatable and consistent down to the thousandths that way. [/QUOTE]
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