Bullet depth?
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Bullet depth?
I recently purchased a Remington 700 7mm sendero. I was trying to figure out my bullet seating depth. The normal way i do this is to take a shot brass crimp the mouth a little and insert a bullet and insert the cartridge into my chamber and eject the brass and bullet and measure the depth then minus .015 and off i go. Well i tried that and my new gun chamber wont accept a nonsized brass and if i size my brass its to hard to get a bullet in the mouth of the brass to put it into the chamber and test my depth. Does anybody have a better method ???
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Re: Bullet depth?
If you can not get a touch on the lands with your present attempts. Take a resized(empty)case and start loading bullets at various depths and smoke them and slide them into the chamber, like you were loading a round. Keep doing this til you get one that is just touching the lands and showing on the smoked bullet. You should then have your rifles measurment. It will take a few times and maybe the loss of a few bullets, but it should give you what you want. Bill K
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Re: Bullet depth?
Or just purchase the Hornady bullet comparator tool and have an absolute reliable/repeatable method of finding the distance-to-lands measurement, and be done with it.
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Re: Bullet depth?
Rick That was exactly what I did, it should be here in a few days
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