Bigeclipse
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I am not sure what is going on but when seating 120 grain Nosler Ballistic tips in my 7mm08 using my Forster competition seating die, I am not getting consistent seating depths to ogive when measuring with a Hornady comparator. My guess is the seating stem in the die is pushing on the bullet in a different spot than the Hornady gauge but the odd thing is it only happens on every few bullets. So for example out of 5 seated bullets I will get these ogive measurements:
2.235, 2.238, 2.233, and then a random 2.220 and a 2.224. Target depth is 2.235. These are not the actual measurements im getting just an example of what I have seen. Should I simply seat them all a bit long and then slowly bump them to depth?
I am not sure what is going on but when seating 120 grain Nosler Ballistic tips in my 7mm08 using my Forster competition seating die, I am not getting consistent seating depths to ogive when measuring with a Hornady comparator. My guess is the seating stem in the die is pushing on the bullet in a different spot than the Hornady gauge but the odd thing is it only happens on every few bullets. So for example out of 5 seated bullets I will get these ogive measurements:
2.235, 2.238, 2.233, and then a random 2.220 and a 2.224. Target depth is 2.235. These are not the actual measurements im getting just an example of what I have seen. Should I simply seat them all a bit long and then slowly bump them to depth?