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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Morgan" data-source="post: 2828142" data-attributes="member: 4676"><p>I have measured seating depth this way on my rifle. There are a few issues I ran into though.. First, in my rifle, a VLD style bullet has just the right taper to form a mechanical lock very easily in the the leade and throat, so it gets more difficult. I had to slowly drop the COAL until it stopped grabbing the bullet. The problem is that I had to full lock the bolt to ensure the round was fully chambered, but if the bullet grabbed, it would have to be knocked out.. Shorter HPBT bullets didn't have this issue. The second is, if you don't have much neck tension, accidentally bumping the bullet can knock it back and give a false reading.</p><p></p><p>And yes, different bullets and different rifles will each give different readings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Morgan, post: 2828142, member: 4676"] I have measured seating depth this way on my rifle. There are a few issues I ran into though.. First, in my rifle, a VLD style bullet has just the right taper to form a mechanical lock very easily in the the leade and throat, so it gets more difficult. I had to slowly drop the COAL until it stopped grabbing the bullet. The problem is that I had to full lock the bolt to ensure the round was fully chambered, but if the bullet grabbed, it would have to be knocked out.. Shorter HPBT bullets didn't have this issue. The second is, if you don't have much neck tension, accidentally bumping the bullet can knock it back and give a false reading. And yes, different bullets and different rifles will each give different readings. [/QUOTE]
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