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Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
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11/17/20 11:42 PM
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tskin
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Does anyone play around with seating depth? To feed properly, the 308 tikka starts out farther from the lands than anything else I’ve loaded. Does it do any good to adjust depth after a certain distance?
Do those with experience in this area just make em long enough to function and tweak the powder load to obtain your best accuracy? It shoots very well but I would like to know its limits/potential. The mag creates another variable.
Thanks for any input.
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Re: Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
[Re: tskin]
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11/17/20 11:59 PM
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dee
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Typically I try at mag length in that scenario. Bullet choice/design can definitely help you or hurt you in your goal though.
"A vote is like a rifle; it's usefulness depends on the character of the user" Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
[Re: tskin]
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11/18/20 12:07 AM
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tskin
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I think I’ll make some up just off the lands and load them individually. It may not make that big a deal because this gun shoots everything well.
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Re: Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
[Re: tskin]
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11/18/20 12:40 AM
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TackDriver
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I think I’ll make some up just off the lands and load them individually. It may not make that big a deal because this gun shoots everything well.
Are you loading individually to shoot at the range? If so, not an issue. If you are loading individually to hunt, I would not. I would seat the bullets deep enough to load into the magazine and work up a load at magazine length.
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Re: Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
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11/18/20 12:44 AM
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ChadTRG42
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just make em long enough to function and tweak the powder load to obtain your best accuracy ^^^ This
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Re: Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
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11/18/20 01:54 AM
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kmon11
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just make em long enough to function and tweak the powder load to obtain your best accuracy ^^^ This Yup, been doing that for most rifles for years. Like also said some bullets are more seating depth sensitive than others.
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Re: Bullet seating depth when limited by magazine
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11/18/20 01:56 PM
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J.G.
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just make em long enough to function and tweak the powder load to obtain your best accuracy ^^^ This Yup, been doing that for most rifles for years. Like also said some bullets are more seating depth sensitive than others. ^^Very, very common in mass produced rifles.
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