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Seating depth or powder charge?
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<blockquote data-quote="gohring3006" data-source="post: 1455193" data-attributes="member: 78762"><p>I do seating first, I just did a 300 Win with 208 ELDs. I didn't load that many lengths. I did 5 sets of 5 rounds, starting at Hornadys book length which was 3.34" went to 3.58" I think. This is all off of memory, my notes are in the basement. </p><p>Two lengths showed promise with 5 shots and they were .040" apart. I chose the one seated deepest so I could chase the lands as they get farther away. I made up dummy rounds for each length and I adjusted my die to the desired length, and then measured off the ogive, recorded it, and measured distance from the lands with a OAL gauge and recorded it. </p><p>This sounds like a lot of work, but I shot a total of 18 rounds. I didn't shot a whole string of 5, if ES and groups were poor in three shots. I have shot 40-50 rounds doing powder charge work ups, and often didn't get desired results. So it's always seating first for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gohring3006, post: 1455193, member: 78762"] I do seating first, I just did a 300 Win with 208 ELDs. I didn’t load that many lengths. I did 5 sets of 5 rounds, starting at Hornadys book length which was 3.34” went to 3.58” I think. This is all off of memory, my notes are in the basement. Two lengths showed promise with 5 shots and they were .040” apart. I chose the one seated deepest so I could chase the lands as they get farther away. I made up dummy rounds for each length and I adjusted my die to the desired length, and then measured off the ogive, recorded it, and measured distance from the lands with a OAL gauge and recorded it. This sounds like a lot of work, but I shot a total of 18 rounds. I didn’t shot a whole string of 5, if ES and groups were poor in three shots. I have shot 40-50 rounds doing powder charge work ups, and often didn’t get desired results. So it’s always seating first for me. [/QUOTE]
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