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Help! Distance to the lands
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2057555" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Were you jamming it in there with the Hornady tool? Or trying the back-and-forth light tough way? I don't mess with the delicate method, I jam the heck out of the bullet into the lands with the Hornady tool and get repeatable results down to the thousandths, and I back off 0.010" from that. </p><p></p><p>Generally with a hunting load you don't want to stick a bullet in the bore and fill an action with powder if you have to open the action right, right? And Berger tells us the VLDs can handle jump and have a range 0.030-0.040" wide for seating depth, so you should be able to find longer jump node, so why jam them into the lands anyways? If your measurement is off in absolute terms, it doesn't matter because you're only coming back away from that point, not going in deeper.</p><p></p><p>Start at 0.010" off your hard jam, back out by 0.040" intervals, bracket the best group, done. Then shoot it way far out there to actually confirm the load.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2057555, member: 116181"] Were you jamming it in there with the Hornady tool? Or trying the back-and-forth light tough way? I don't mess with the delicate method, I jam the heck out of the bullet into the lands with the Hornady tool and get repeatable results down to the thousandths, and I back off 0.010" from that. Generally with a hunting load you don't want to stick a bullet in the bore and fill an action with powder if you have to open the action right, right? And Berger tells us the VLDs can handle jump and have a range 0.030-0.040" wide for seating depth, so you should be able to find longer jump node, so why jam them into the lands anyways? If your measurement is off in absolute terms, it doesn't matter because you're only coming back away from that point, not going in deeper. Start at 0.010" off your hard jam, back out by 0.040" intervals, bracket the best group, done. Then shoot it way far out there to actually confirm the load. [/QUOTE]
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