Thread: AMP Press bullet seater

Greetings all,
My latest copy of Handloader appeared on my chair the other day. Thumbing through it there was an article by Art Merrill on the new AMP Press bullet seater. This press seats your projectiles and the incorporated digital technology measures the case neck tension over time and a lot else much of which I barely understand. Proudly made in NZ and proudly displaying the Kiwi logo. Art mentioned that the technology was developed to aid the development of the AMP annealer. I guess it won't interest the bush hobbits much if at all but the long range target shooters and hunters may be a different matter.
I am absolutely gob smacked by the pace of development in handloading kit and wonder what will be next.
Regards Grandpamac.

The irony of this is the astounding accuracy of today's factory ammo. I RO a lot at the local range, and as the club has a Garmin chrony we will usually chrony people's ammo as well as measure their groups. I see a lot of factory ammo 5 shot groups ( try as I might no-one fires 10 shot factory groups haha) in the 0.5 to 0.8 MOA range and those groups are often accompanied by velocity SDs in the 5-10 range. It still takes a really good quality barrel to achieve these sorts of results, but it's only in the last 10 years or so factory ammo has delivered them.

That seating pressure measurement system has been out a while now. Yeh, it's interesting but the correlation between neck tension and MV isn't necessarily linear. Unless you're routinely shooting animals at 800yds+, there are far better ways to spend your money anyway. Mandrelling after resizing with a focus on achieving smooth equal seating pressure is what will give you best returns.