Santa came a lil early fer Shorty.....

stovepipe

chambered221 wrote:

Oh ya forgot ..... sorry bout that !!! Poke

Ya also fergot about that 5'er ya owe me for that failed prediction when I brought the gun home.... Very Happy

stovepipe

moose2 wrote:

For Heaven's Sake Stovey. Just go out and get ya one of those Thingys. Very Happy

Lil embarrassed....not sure what they are called and Google gets a million hits when I enter bore chamber "thingy".... Laughing

Bushmaster

I hate buying "thingys" It's down right embarrassing. I always tell the ckerk they're "battle dressings"

stovepipe

Battle dressings.... Laughing

Good one bud. Actually when I was doing SAR I ahd a ton of those and well yeh, they look like 'em.

I think I found what I need- RCBS makes it...think it's called a headspace and bullet seating depth tool. I only neck size so....wonder if I can get the freebore tool only. Goota do more googlin fer thingys. But I'm sure the freebore is longer than I can get to before the boat tail is up in the neck of the case so.....might be fun to have to experiment with.

chambered221

Is this what your referring to ???
It's called a RCBS precision mic.
I have a few if you have any questions in regards to them.

chambered221

Oh ya .....forgot again !!!

wtf

what 5er and what prediction you talking about .........you got me confused with someone else ..... I think !!!

dan1dad

santa likely saw the price of primers and figured you could get your own! lol

Elvis

man thats getting all technical now.

stovepipe

chambered221 wrote:

Oh ya .....forgot again !!!

wtf

what 5er and what prediction you talking about .........you got me confused with someone else ..... I think !!!

When I brought the gun home, you bet I'd forget the primers.

Reeeeemember???? Razz

stovepipe

Elvis wrote:

man thats getting all technical now.

Yepper. I usually smoke a bullet, run it in and see if it hits the lands but..I think I'm going to run out of shank before I hit the lands.

Bushmaster

If memory hasn't alluded me, you are allowed to have one caliber in seating depth. .30 caliber. Bullet seated to a depth of .30" into the case.

stovepipe

I think you are correct sir, I've read that too. But the back-cut on these boat tails is huge so- I run them in a lil farther to get more grip. Not sure if that makes sense or not.

Ominivision1

I have a shooting buddy that shoots them lonnngg boat tails and found he had to seat them to deep which ate up his powder space. He went and bought one of them hand Bullet Cannelure Tool from buffalo arms to seat them at his rifles optimum oal using that bullet. I also think corbins makes one too.

stovepipe

I hear ya. These are not that long, normal 168gr SMK, same bullet as the Fed GMM. @ 2.810 (same as the Federal COL) there's full neck/shank contact and nothing intruding on the power space

chambered221

Still think you got me confused with someone else !!!

Is that the tool............ you forgot to answer that one.

How much of the bullet is BT .......... you got calipers don't ya ???