Thread: Seating depth - who bothers?

Originally Posted by Nasty Factory Trigger

Nice work there Veitnamcam - I for one am also wondering of the seating depths and changes it can make. To show the results is a great way to demonstrate what can/does happen when just one aspect of reloading is changed.... Kudos!

Might have to seat a projectile and close the bolt on it to remeasure and set my seating die I think....

If you do that on a sized neck you will end up with 5 odd thou Jam and it will probably stick in the lands when you extract.
you can buy things to get just touch overall length or size a case cut down the neck with a hack saw and debur with a needle file and piss round with it till it just holds a pill firmly but you can slide it in and out buy hand.
Do it 5 or 6 times, if length vary wildly its to tight and being pulled back out by sticking in the lands.
Double check just touch with your first 5 or so loaded rounds buy carefully inspecting ogive and scrubbing round with scotch brite(shows the slightest touch)