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Hornady OAL Guage ?
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<blockquote data-quote="noexperience" data-source="post: 551246" data-attributes="member: 37379"><p>I belong to 4 different shooting/hunting forums and see this problem all the time. I have the same types of issues with the hornady tool in that I get different readings every time I use it. therefore, I submit my cure. I have reverted back to the old nosler method of putting a bullet into the throat and touching it from the muzzle with a cleaning rod , then mark the location at the end of the barrel....then take the bullet out and insert the bolt and mark a spot on the cleaning rod again, this time touching the face of the bolt. I use that OAL as a starting point, measure the distance between the two points on the rod, then use a black marker or lit match to smoke the bullet and run it into the bore and look for rifling marks. I continue to run it into the sizer die, adjusted 1/4 turn down until I find no rifling marks. this gives me OAL either just barely touching or just off the lands and I go from there and experiement. sometimes, depending on rifle, this takes a while, but once you have it, you save that non primed round and can adjust every time you want to use that same bullet in the same rifle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noexperience, post: 551246, member: 37379"] I belong to 4 different shooting/hunting forums and see this problem all the time. I have the same types of issues with the hornady tool in that I get different readings every time I use it. therefore, I submit my cure. I have reverted back to the old nosler method of putting a bullet into the throat and touching it from the muzzle with a cleaning rod , then mark the location at the end of the barrel....then take the bullet out and insert the bolt and mark a spot on the cleaning rod again, this time touching the face of the bolt. I use that OAL as a starting point, measure the distance between the two points on the rod, then use a black marker or lit match to smoke the bullet and run it into the bore and look for rifling marks. I continue to run it into the sizer die, adjusted 1/4 turn down until I find no rifling marks. this gives me OAL either just barely touching or just off the lands and I go from there and experiement. sometimes, depending on rifle, this takes a while, but once you have it, you save that non primed round and can adjust every time you want to use that same bullet in the same rifle. [/QUOTE]
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