On the subject of seating depth, anyone know where these bullets like to be? I like the failsafe's because shape allows you to seat close to lands and still fit mag.
A friend wants me to load some 180 Accubonds in his .30-06. Last year I worked up a load using 180 gr. Failsafes that was .75" @ 100 yds. He'd like to try the Accubonds because of better BC. So anybody got some good loads for it?
I own 8 kimbers in all, I like the full sized for shooting but the Pro model is a little easier to carry and I like the balance in my hand also. The full size seems a little less recoil but not much difference. Of all the Kimbers I own the one with the best trigger is my Ultra Carry, also it...
Also, with all my dies I used fired cases from the rifle I'm loading and get headspace of fired case then adjust dies to set shoulder back .002" for hunting ammo. There in may lay the problem, if the ram of press needs to be up and putting pressure in die to get square to ram / shellholder and...
I used RCBS Casemaster neck for neck thickness, not sure if its as accurate as ball micro but seems pretty accurate once you get used to it. Need to be consistant with holding case.
I must say I've gotten some good ideas from all the responses and will go back to square one and re-set dies...
I checked neck thickness on most of the new winchester brass and it ran .001" or less difference, would not think that would account for most cases being .004" run out. So question, if I buy new dies set them up for the rifle I'm looading for as to depth so I just size shoulde back say .002" or...
I did measure a couple of cases for run out picked some with .004" or more and set dies as suggested, marked the highest point on neck ( where i got the highest reading ) and then ran thru the dies again, each time turning the case a 1/4 turn to see if that would help with run out, i did notice...
I'm doing some loading for a friends .270 win he bought new RCBS dies and I FL sized all the new winchester cases he bought before loading. I cleaned / polished once fired brass and sized. On a whim I ran some thru my RCBS Casemaster to check neck run out. On about 90% of the fired / sized cases...