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Help with seating depth
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<blockquote data-quote="benchracer" data-source="post: 707527" data-attributes="member: 22069"><p>You can get by without the OAL gauge or the modified cases. Here's how:</p><p> </p><p>1. Install and close your bolt.</p><p> </p><p>2. Using a jag with the tip ground flat, push a one piece cleaning rod into the muzzle of your rifle until it contacts the bolt face.</p><p> </p><p>3. Mark your cleaning rod at the muzzle (I wrap my cleaning rod in masking tape and score the masking tape with a razor blade held against the muzzle).</p><p> </p><p>4. Using a length of wood dowel, push your chosen bullet into the chamber of your rifle.</p><p> </p><p>5. While holding the dowel/bullet in place, gently push your cleaning rod w/flat tipped jag into the barrel until it stops against the bullet you are holding in the chamber.</p><p> </p><p>6. Mark your cleaning rod again.</p><p> </p><p>7. After removing the bullet from the chamber and the cleaning rod from the barrel, measure the distance between the marks with your reloading caliper.</p><p> </p><p>The resulting measurement will tell you the necessary OAL, measured from cartridge base to bullet tip, to reach the rifling. From there, you can perform the seating depth tests recommended by Berger and described above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="benchracer, post: 707527, member: 22069"] You can get by without the OAL gauge or the modified cases. Here's how: 1. Install and close your bolt. 2. Using a jag with the tip ground flat, push a one piece cleaning rod into the muzzle of your rifle until it contacts the bolt face. 3. Mark your cleaning rod at the muzzle (I wrap my cleaning rod in masking tape and score the masking tape with a razor blade held against the muzzle). 4. Using a length of wood dowel, push your chosen bullet into the chamber of your rifle. 5. While holding the dowel/bullet in place, gently push your cleaning rod w/flat tipped jag into the barrel until it stops against the bullet you are holding in the chamber. 6. Mark your cleaning rod again. 7. After removing the bullet from the chamber and the cleaning rod from the barrel, measure the distance between the marks with your reloading caliper. The resulting measurement will tell you the necessary OAL, measured from cartridge base to bullet tip, to reach the rifling. From there, you can perform the seating depth tests recommended by Berger and described above. [/QUOTE]
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