I would hope to find a solution for accurately seating the tipped bullets such as Accubonds than having to pay $176.for the competition seating die.
Agreed! But it's an option nonetheless ...
I would hope to find a solution for accurately seating the tipped bullets such as Accubonds than having to pay $176.for the competition seating die.
I really don't see where it would 'hurt' to make ALL stems accept extended point bullets. It's amazing to me that this issue continues.One would think die manufacturers would get on the band wagon with their own version of a VLD stem since the proliferation of VLD type bullets.
I really don't see where it would 'hurt' to make ALL stems accept extended point bullets. It's amazing to me that this issue continues.
This may be the same Redding Seating but it looks different and this one fits a variety of calibers. The ones I would need are the 7 08, 270, 25 06. 280AI
I am now wondering if this will screw into the RCBS or Redding regular dies...
https://www.midsouthshooterssupply....er-number-7-standard-(243-win25-06-rem7x577mm
Anyone know?
Drilling the seater plug is recommended by Lee. Lee will also make a custom seater plug for you.
Be careful with a fit too perfect. This can lead to excess wedging contact up & down the nose, with varying seating forces. This is also the reason you don't want seater stem datums near land contact datums. The angles would be too shallow for the stem to dig into grip.
Either causing inconsistent CBTOs.
All my loads are at least 100 thou off the lands. Using this seater has achieved 5 shot groups in the high 1s at 100 yards and approaching 1/4 moa at 600 yards. Also sd s in the single figures for 20 shots. I've the stem well drilled out beforehand and the contact area about halfway up the ogive. Maybe I got lucky the first time, but I am more than happy with the results.
Dogcityrollers, are your measured CBTOs accurate? Are they VLDs?
This would better relate to what we're talking about here.
Sure would be interested in the details of your rifle and your load data
It's a blaser lrs2 in 223. Myloads are neck turned , trimmed to length and sorted for weight using lapua match brass. I also turn the flash holes to a uniform length on every firing. I use 25.7 grains of h335 with cci 400 primers. This gives me an mv around the 3100 fps mark. My oal length is 2.360". Once I have the bullet seated I check it for concentricity with a machine I made. I can then straighten them to under a thou of runoff. I use a very light neck tension to ease straightening. Once I have them straightened i finish them off with the lee factory crimp die. My loads are all full length sized. This is my 69gr tmk load which is excellent for foxes. There virtually no exit hole whatsoever. I found through a lot of trial and error that the crimp die halves my sd on certain bullets. On others it did very little. The hornady 75 gr bthp match being unaffected. There's a picture of my straightener
Sorry for the long winded answer. Hope this covers it.
Quite well.
Nice rifle. Lots of work you put into those reloads.