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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 1709088" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>Surprising how long one can get with the falling blocks.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I haven't checked yet to see how long they'll be when the bullets hit the origin of the rifling, but they may be out there pretty long. On the Hammer website it says that these bullets are not sensitive to seating depth, and I read somewhere ( maybe it was on this forum ) that .02" short of the rifling is minimum jump for monolithic bullets, so that will be the longest I would want to load them. The guy at Hammer Bullets told me to try them first with the boat-tail part of the bullet loaded just below the case neck, and the aft end of the bearing surface right at the neck/shoulder juncture. This is consistent with what I've read in McPherson's handloading manual. ( He discusses the reasons why this is best in great detail.) There's some heavy-duty theory involved here, most of which is way over my head. I'll leave the why's & where-for's to the engineers, and just take the advice of the bullet manufacturer and run with it. I think this is going to work.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 1709088, member: 109113"] Surprising how long one can get with the falling blocks.[/QUOTE] I haven't checked yet to see how long they'll be when the bullets hit the origin of the rifling, but they may be out there pretty long. On the Hammer website it says that these bullets are not sensitive to seating depth, and I read somewhere ( maybe it was on this forum ) that .02" short of the rifling is minimum jump for monolithic bullets, so that will be the longest I would want to load them. The guy at Hammer Bullets told me to try them first with the boat-tail part of the bullet loaded just below the case neck, and the aft end of the bearing surface right at the neck/shoulder juncture. This is consistent with what I've read in McPherson's handloading manual. ( He discusses the reasons why this is best in great detail.) There's some heavy-duty theory involved here, most of which is way over my head. I'll leave the why's & where-for's to the engineers, and just take the advice of the bullet manufacturer and run with it. I think this is going to work. [/QUOTE]
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