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Reloading
Measuring OAL
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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 571385" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>The pointing die used to put the ogive on a jacket stuffed with lead or whatever doesn't make each bullet's ogive curve the same. There's always a small spread.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes that difference will cause accuracy problems. If it does, then seat bullets such that they hard seat against the rifling in the chamber's leade. You may have to drop a grain in powder weight to make up for the very slight increase in pressure, but it's usually worth it. Seating bullets about 5 thousandths too long probably will still let them be pulled out with the case if you need to unload. Any longer and they might stick in the lands. Then you get to clean all the powder out of the action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 571385, member: 5302"] The pointing die used to put the ogive on a jacket stuffed with lead or whatever doesn't make each bullet's ogive curve the same. There's always a small spread. Sometimes that difference will cause accuracy problems. If it does, then seat bullets such that they hard seat against the rifling in the chamber's leade. You may have to drop a grain in powder weight to make up for the very slight increase in pressure, but it's usually worth it. Seating bullets about 5 thousandths too long probably will still let them be pulled out with the case if you need to unload. Any longer and they might stick in the lands. Then you get to clean all the powder out of the action. [/QUOTE]
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