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Hornady OAL guage help
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<blockquote data-quote="YZ-80" data-source="post: 1692129" data-attributes="member: 109229"><p>What you might be seeing is some variation of the contact point to the lands at the ogive profile. I've had it vary up to .007" with cheaper bullets and your Berger's might vary as much as .002-.003. I've also found that some projectiles don't necessarily come to a hard stop when they encounter the lands, giving you this </p><p>" mushy" resistance for as much as a few hundredths until they come to a hard stop. This can be frustrating but I don't think you need to go for a drive. .005 variance with an OAL gage is not unheard of and there could be other factors at play, perhaps your comparator case? IMHO if you can reliably seat at .005" off, I'd go with that. That's pretty close, relatively speaking and I've heard some fairly reliable reloading aficionados say .002 to .003" difference isn't make a heck of a lot of difference anyway. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YZ-80, post: 1692129, member: 109229"] What you might be seeing is some variation of the contact point to the lands at the ogive profile. I’ve had it vary up to .007” with cheaper bullets and your Berger’s might vary as much as .002-.003. I’ve also found that some projectiles don’t necessarily come to a hard stop when they encounter the lands, giving you this “ mushy” resistance for as much as a few hundredths until they come to a hard stop. This can be frustrating but I don’t think you need to go for a drive. .005 variance with an OAL gage is not unheard of and there could be other factors at play, perhaps your comparator case? IMHO if you can reliably seat at .005” off, I’d go with that. That’s pretty close, relatively speaking and I’ve heard some fairly reliable reloading aficionados say .002 to .003” difference isn’t make a heck of a lot of difference anyway. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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