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Purpose of bullet jump
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<blockquote data-quote="catamountsierra" data-source="post: 1793885" data-attributes="member: 79865"><p>What you are saying makes a lot of sense to me. I've been kicking around a number of different questions about seating depths, largely because I never found a really good load for my Rem700 while it had it's factory 7mm-08 barrel on it. I played around with several bullets, a couple powders, and different seating depths, but never got it to shoot better than about a minute and a quarter; pretty much everything I tried shot at that level regardless, so at least it was consistent that way. Anyway, I sent it off to the gunsmith and it came back as a 284 Winchester. Right off the bat it shoots better, so now I want to squeeze it for all it is worth. I had been just fireforming my brass with cheap bullets and some powder that I just wanted to use up and planning on starting load development after the brass was formed, including seating depth testing.</p><p></p><p>Now, since I still have another couple hundred cases I can form for that rifle, I am thinking that I may be able to do seating depth testing while forming brass, even if I am using a different powder than I plan to use later for the actual load development. At least that makes sense if I am understanding your post correctly. I could see some fine tuning after powder charge testing, but it sounds like I wouldn't be shouldn't be starting from scratch if I change powder. Likewise, I think I should be able to do the seating depth testing for my new 223AI barrel while forming brass for it. I'm just hoping to confirm that I understand this correctly before I load up a bunch of more expensive bullets as a test that wouldn't actually carry over to my final load development.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catamountsierra, post: 1793885, member: 79865"] What you are saying makes a lot of sense to me. I've been kicking around a number of different questions about seating depths, largely because I never found a really good load for my Rem700 while it had it's factory 7mm-08 barrel on it. I played around with several bullets, a couple powders, and different seating depths, but never got it to shoot better than about a minute and a quarter; pretty much everything I tried shot at that level regardless, so at least it was consistent that way. Anyway, I sent it off to the gunsmith and it came back as a 284 Winchester. Right off the bat it shoots better, so now I want to squeeze it for all it is worth. I had been just fireforming my brass with cheap bullets and some powder that I just wanted to use up and planning on starting load development after the brass was formed, including seating depth testing. Now, since I still have another couple hundred cases I can form for that rifle, I am thinking that I may be able to do seating depth testing while forming brass, even if I am using a different powder than I plan to use later for the actual load development. At least that makes sense if I am understanding your post correctly. I could see some fine tuning after powder charge testing, but it sounds like I wouldn't be shouldn't be starting from scratch if I change powder. Likewise, I think I should be able to do the seating depth testing for my new 223AI barrel while forming brass for it. I'm just hoping to confirm that I understand this correctly before I load up a bunch of more expensive bullets as a test that wouldn't actually carry over to my final load development. [/QUOTE]
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