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Reloading
seating depth increments
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<blockquote data-quote="FearNoWind" data-source="post: 1295738" data-attributes="member: 50867"><p>Relying on OAL (bullet base to bullet tip) to fine tune jump is akin to chasing your tail. Even if you're separating your bullets by length out of the box before seating, your measurements won't be accurate enough to be useful and you'll end up frustrated..</p><p>You'll have better results using CBOL to do comparative testing of seating depths.</p><p>IMO, .010 increments will put you in the ball park so that you can use the overall spread of groups on target to show you where to concentrate your fine tuning efforts but once that's done I'd use .003 increments to obtain final data.</p><p>After that you can play with .1 gr adjustments in the load to really fine tune it.</p><p>I've used Berger's "Getting the Best Precision and Accuracy from VLD bullets in Your Rifle" (stick previously mentioned) and it works fairly well - with VLD bullets. I've found it's not the perfect solution for every bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FearNoWind, post: 1295738, member: 50867"] Relying on OAL (bullet base to bullet tip) to fine tune jump is akin to chasing your tail. Even if you're separating your bullets by length out of the box before seating, your measurements won't be accurate enough to be useful and you'll end up frustrated.. You'll have better results using CBOL to do comparative testing of seating depths. IMO, .010 increments will put you in the ball park so that you can use the overall spread of groups on target to show you where to concentrate your fine tuning efforts but once that's done I'd use .003 increments to obtain final data. After that you can play with .1 gr adjustments in the load to really fine tune it. I've used Berger's "Getting the Best Precision and Accuracy from VLD bullets in Your Rifle" (stick previously mentioned) and it works fairly well - with VLD bullets. I've found it's not the perfect solution for every bullet. [/QUOTE]
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