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Hi Guys
I had a saved page on the iPad that's now not:pissed off:
Which had a bullet depth seating tool which I wanted. Was not your usual and was posted on here from where I saved it.
Had a good look but bugger if I can find the bloody thing.
It's NOT lee, Sinclair, Hornady our any of the other big reloading brands but a relatively small company that post from the states.
Anyone help, much appreciated if you can.
Cheers.
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Is it a seating die?
Forster vernier seating die?
CH4D?
Widden??
Hi guys not Foster's and not widden either.
Not sure @Gibo I know that is of little help sorry but I'll know it when I see it. The web site was green and yellow lol.
Guess I need another look through.
Anybody else?
L E Wilson dies?
Sorry no @rupert
Needle and haystack?
Was it a bullet seating tool, or a seating depth comparator?
@Tommy not sure. This is doing my nut:omg: the decision went along the lines of trouble with col with each cartridge loaded being of a different size. It was in the last 8months. Anyway a website was posted on here with a solution for this problem and it wasn't the usual suspects like Lee etc.
So I thought hey that's the ducks nuts I'll save that. Now it's gone:omg: show me what ya got there Tommy and I'll let you know if your on the money.
Ps where's mr yellow gone:oh noes:
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Are you having problems with a bullet seater inconsistently seating bullets in the case i.e. varying COL or are you trying to measure a certain cartridge base to ogive length (CBTO), or are you trying ascertain your bullet distance to the lands or how much jump to the lands you want a certain batch of bullets to be?
He has no idea what he wants but we should know :D :P
@Gibo has it in one.:XD::thumbsup:
Not one of those RCBS micro bullet headspace thingamabobs that pop up on Trade me for 308 and 223?
https://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/hun...721c92a257b6f4
Hi @johnd nar but I think I'll think I'll get one with a micrometer on top.
I've had a pretty good look through and just can't find it. If I do you all be the first to know:P
is it 21st century shootig?
Probably nothing to do with seating and its that deburrer/chamfer length trimmer gadget.
Ok so I'll try to explain it.
New brass neck sized. Trimmed.
Happy with both and both came out how I wanted. Measurements all good.
Primed happy again.
Trailboss powder. All good.
Putting the pill in and :wtfsmilie: reread the institutions two hundred times and still:wtfsmilie:
Here's what I do.
Seat bullet come down 1/4 rotate cartridge 1/2 turn then down another 1/4 rotate etc.
But when I get to full seating death I'm getting loads of different over all cartridge lengths.
Have pulled a few and done it again from the start.
Have measured from the shoulder with Hornady tool and that all comes up spot on.
But once I messure from the tip to the base I get also sorts of measurements. I've read the instructions set the seating tool and thought that the bullets should all then seat to the same depth in the cartridge.
So I'm kind of stuck. Sorry don't have my note book at hand so can't give you all the numbers.
But I saw the above tool and though let's try that. Stupid maybe.
Anybody here had the same issue? I'm going to sleep on it now so I'll see ya answers in the morning.
Larrywillis ? He makes the collet die for magnum cases.
Your problems are not unusual. It comes from variation in the projectiles. One way to get around it is to get a micrometer seating stem and the "thingy" for measuring to the ogive on the projectile.
Seat the projectile so it is nearly right. Measure with the ogive tool and work out how many thou more it needs to go in, adjust seating stem, re-seat, re-measure. I have had pretty good results using hornady dies and the hornady micrometer stem. Forster and Redding make very good micrometer seating dies.
Don't worry about base to tip measurements. Base to ogive is more important as it is the ogive that engages with the rifling.
Do you have a hornady comparator to measure from base to ogive? Pills can have various issues with the tip so measuring base to tip in my experience will throw different COALsQuote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
Thanks guys!
Yes @Gibo I've just got one.
Must be a bit of a trap this. Either that our I'm just had a bubbler bump moment:P
Result pulled the last lot and went again measuring from the ogive with the Hornady comparator.
They came up sweet thanks @Gibo & @stug also for the rest that replied here. Might look at getting the redding tool later on but really happy that I've got this sorted.:thumbsup::):D cheers again:thumbsup:
Yep bullet tips can be a little inconsistent ogive is much better consistency wize
Messure from the tip is fine just be aware that there will be a few thousands Variation between coal but that Variation is just the tip
The ogives will be exactly the same