Thread: Bullet seating depth and OAL issues

Originally Posted by bully

I said if you want to you could start at your 50 thou jump. But I don't really recommend that.
You could start at 15 or 20 thou and work your way deeper if you have no joy. Just depends on mag length.
Myself I haven't used Barnes bullets, and starting at ten thou jump have never tested more than about 30 thou deep/jump. Iv never had magazine restrictions. And often start at 10 thou jump and find a load there. Just see how it goes.

There's lots to the reloading game, and often people do things different. But most at least try to do it safely.

Barnes recommendation of 0.050" is worth noting. Being monolythic they don't work the same as conventional bullets. Pressure spikes faster IIRC due to the construction of the Barnes. The Barnes bullets I have used shot just fine all the way out to 0.100" jump and I would bet even further is OK.