Woods, any chance you could provide a picture of the top of the comparator where it attaches to the caliper, to show the offset?
I would really appreciate it as this has been burning my biscuits for quite some time.
Tom
Ok will try and put all this info down so its understandable.
Rifle-Remington Sendero 300 Ultra Mag
OAL-3.600
Bullets being used-Berger 185gr
Published OAL of Berger bullet-1.378
The lenght of bullet from my caliper-1.360
With Hornady OAL Gauge-3.824
With comparator on the OAL guage-3.140
With my caliper I have found that my magazine will only allow for a OAL of 3.610, after that it becomes a single shot rifle.
So with all these numbers can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here???
I also know that with the RCBS dies and Lee dies the tips of my bullets were bottoming out in the seater therefore damaging the tips of the bullets. I have only found two dies companies that make a seater for VLD bullets and that is Redding and Forster.
Thank you in advance for any insight anyone can give me as to what I am doing wrong, I have followed the instructions to the best of my ability, I am just an old dumb scooby mule deer hunter.
When I load 6ppc, I'm getting a difference of about 0.5" when I measure the OAL of the entire cartridge vs. measuring the casebase to ogive with a comparator. What do I use for my seating depth? The comparator length is too short!
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think at this point, I'm going to use the OAL gauge with the special case and measure the OAL and subtract about 0.02 from there. I don't know what to do with the comparator measurement.
Steve