Right chaps. I've always thought myself to be a fairly competant reloader but I've come across something that's really got me beat! So I'm looking for some pointers!
My combi gun isn't grouping too well. Never really has and this has been confirmed by the fitting of the scope. I can't get inside 4" at 100 yards with the factory ammo I have and I think I've just sussed out why! I've always loaded about 20 thou from the lands, maybe more with Barnes TSX. Well as an experiment I thought I'd draw a pencil line around the bullet against the case and give it a few taps with the kinetic hammer to pull them out a bit, then stick them in the rifle and close it to get the approximate max OAL for that bullet type by seating them with the throat of the rifling. All seems simple you may say? What's the problem? Well...
Factory ammo is 2.855 OAL. I've hammered them out to 3.122 and pencilled a second ring on the bullet. They still close with no resistance. I tapped it a little more and out it fell, so less than a bullet width was inside the case at last known measurement! Arse! What should I do next? :unsure:
My combi gun isn't grouping too well. Never really has and this has been confirmed by the fitting of the scope. I can't get inside 4" at 100 yards with the factory ammo I have and I think I've just sussed out why! I've always loaded about 20 thou from the lands, maybe more with Barnes TSX. Well as an experiment I thought I'd draw a pencil line around the bullet against the case and give it a few taps with the kinetic hammer to pull them out a bit, then stick them in the rifle and close it to get the approximate max OAL for that bullet type by seating them with the throat of the rifling. All seems simple you may say? What's the problem? Well...
Factory ammo is 2.855 OAL. I've hammered them out to 3.122 and pencilled a second ring on the bullet. They still close with no resistance. I tapped it a little more and out it fell, so less than a bullet width was inside the case at last known measurement! Arse! What should I do next? :unsure: