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Well, no wins on the powerball so I guess the magical spell has worn off!

I am going to drive across town to Cabelas and buy more Accurate 1680 if they haven't run out!

So I think it's Christmas time in February somehow. I guess Santa Claus felt sorry for me as with a new little one who arrived last summer we had a pretty low key Christmas. Yesterday I got a call from my local Class-III FFL that they had the tax stamp back on my 7.62 Saker in only 4.5 months!! 8) :...

Thanks again to everyone for all of the great information and advice. I did get a chance to go out to the range this weekend and burn the 80 or so rounds I had hand loaded. All rounds went bang with no problems or malfunctions! :lol: :lol: I observe that at the limited 50 yards I was shooting at (fo...

So I backed off O.A.L. to 2.025 and after re-seating the bullets into the cases having trouble fitting in the slot gauges, every one of them fits no problem! :lol: :lol: Quite a difference in how the cartridges look with the shorter OAL, I'll try to post a picture. When researching "how far sho...

Yes, it makes perfect sense to me and you are right it is very confusing. So when making a determination on seating depth, what is a good reference? Should I just aim to seat the bullet at the "tested" OAL that Nosler published for their tests? Also, can I further seat bullets in cartridge...

OK, thanks, I might also give that a try.

In researching loading I had seen frequent warnings that seating a bullet too deep (back-seating?) was more of a problem than loading towards the limit of the SAAMI spec.

golfindia wrote:2.204 seems pretty long for that type of bullet.

2.26 is what Nosler shows.

http://www.nosler.com/nosler-load-data/ ... -blackout/

The measurement you are showing is in spec at less than .3759. A good idea to double check if it is actually changing size after dropping the powder and seating the bullet. or if that is just a variation in different cases. If the case is bulging after dropping powder and seating the bullet it's po...

Drop the empty brass into the gauge before loading. That should catch the 20% you speak of. Run those through your sizing die and retest with the gauge. If the 20% are already loaded but they fit your chamber, you could just shoot them. Usually the "bulge" is caused by an incomplete strok...

I am going to post a link to reloading pages over at 24 hour camp fire. http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4104691/1 This page goes into detail about case prep. http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4108162/Hand_Loading_for_Long_Range_2_#Post4108...