Originally Posted by Seafire


seating a bullet, I make a dummy round... seat the bullet barely in the case...

chamber it in the rifle, and ram it home with the bolt...

the chamber then tells me max length of the case..

set my seating die on that, and then back its setting off say 1/8 or less of a turn...

try that in the chamber...

if slides in with minimal resistance...call it good...

pull the bullet out of the case and put it back in with the rest of the crowd..
and load it up....


This is the stuff I'm trying to learn; thanks!


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