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Help!! Berger seating depth, distance to lands??
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2113453" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Unpopular opinion maybe, but I breeze past seating depth testing on some loads. If I have a mag length limitation or some other restriction to where length can't be just anything, I'll seat at the SAAMI length, do powder, and then monkey very slightly with seating depth, just a couple of 0.005" changes to see if I can tighten up the horizontal.</p><p></p><p>This is why defining your end goal is important. If you want to make the smallest holes in paper or ring steel at 2000 yards, the sacrifices of single feeding or not being able to reliably unload a round are probably worth it. If you need to carry a rifle three days in a blizzard and unload it every night, then functionality gets in the driver's seat and who cares if your horizontal is 2" wider than you could make it with a jammed bullet, the vitals on a whitetail are the size of a basketball. Better to have the gun go off than an action full of powder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2113453, member: 116181"] Unpopular opinion maybe, but I breeze past seating depth testing on some loads. If I have a mag length limitation or some other restriction to where length can't be just anything, I'll seat at the SAAMI length, do powder, and then monkey very slightly with seating depth, just a couple of 0.005" changes to see if I can tighten up the horizontal. This is why defining your end goal is important. If you want to make the smallest holes in paper or ring steel at 2000 yards, the sacrifices of single feeding or not being able to reliably unload a round are probably worth it. If you need to carry a rifle three days in a blizzard and unload it every night, then functionality gets in the driver's seat and who cares if your horizontal is 2" wider than you could make it with a jammed bullet, the vitals on a whitetail are the size of a basketball. Better to have the gun go off than an action full of powder. [/QUOTE]
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