Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting The Berger seating depth tip might just have worked (thanks to Dirtfarmer)

I recently had a question on Swift Scirocco seating depth and Dirtfarmer suggested I look at the Berger seating depth tip of seating bullets of the same load at 0.01, 0.050, 0.090 and 0.130 from the rifling. Although this was not with Swifts it seems like it worked with 200g Nosler BST. This load was still on the mild side but guess the rifle bullet combo should work

There are 12 shots beneath the tape. The first seating depth (0.010) shot just under an inch and then opened up with the middle two depths. I never expected the shortest OAL to shoot very well and it turned out to be the best of the 4. Here are a picture of the final group with the other 9 shots covered with tape. 100m 4 x 3 shot groups 338 Win Mag.



I would have posted this in the hunting rifle section, but I just wanted to post in the same forum that I asked the question initially.

Pieter