Thread: Stupid Question. bare with me please

Hey mate,

Just in my experience when I started reloading I found the most straight forward and simple way to work out how far out you can seat projectiles (if you are not limited by length of the magazine in your tikka) is to part with a few dollars and by an OAL gauge and the relevant modified case.

https://www.hornady.com/modified-cases#!/

It is a precise tool which will give you confidence and allow you to work out your starting point for seating your reloads, which should ideally be 0.02 inches of the lands to allow good function in varied conditions. Sometimes getting closer to the lands using this method will help with consistency of your rounds which is really important.

Anyway, just my 2 cents worth from my experience. Buy once cry once, once you have the gauge you can use it every time you work up a load for a different rifle and have confidence that your measurement is correct.