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<blockquote data-quote="doverpack12" data-source="post: 1142073" data-attributes="member: 57848"><p>Use a cleaning rod with a jag and sand or grind the jag end flat. Run the rod down the barrel until it is resting flat against the bolt face (make sure firing pin is cocked). Place a piece of tape around the rod at the muzzle here. Then place the bullet in the barrel and use a pencil or something long and skinny to hold the bullet into the lands. Use the cleaning rod with jag and the pencil to move the bullet back and forth feeling where the lands start. When you think you found the spot place another piece of tape around the rod. Measure between your two tape marks and that is where you need to seat that same bullet to in a piece of brass. The sweet spot is supposed to be .03-.04" wide so this will get you close without adding any additional tools beyond what you should have on hand to reload. Just make sure when you set your die for each length you use that same bullet you used to find the lands. Perform this measurement independent of other measurements multiple times making sure your numbers generally agree with one another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doverpack12, post: 1142073, member: 57848"] Use a cleaning rod with a jag and sand or grind the jag end flat. Run the rod down the barrel until it is resting flat against the bolt face (make sure firing pin is cocked). Place a piece of tape around the rod at the muzzle here. Then place the bullet in the barrel and use a pencil or something long and skinny to hold the bullet into the lands. Use the cleaning rod with jag and the pencil to move the bullet back and forth feeling where the lands start. When you think you found the spot place another piece of tape around the rod. Measure between your two tape marks and that is where you need to seat that same bullet to in a piece of brass. The sweet spot is supposed to be .03-.04" wide so this will get you close without adding any additional tools beyond what you should have on hand to reload. Just make sure when you set your die for each length you use that same bullet you used to find the lands. Perform this measurement independent of other measurements multiple times making sure your numbers generally agree with one another. [/QUOTE]
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