coyote wacker wrote:...snip...
I've always preferred a bullet that can have very close to its caliber seated in a case.
Doubly so if it has a long jump to the lands. Kinda getting started off on the right foot. There's preferred and then there's what you have to work with. They're not always hand in hand. I can live with 1/2 caliber but like others, I pause, relax the ram and rotate the case a third turn or so a couple times during the seating thrust. Yeah that slows it down, but you reap what you sow. If you don't feel I'm hopeless yet, bear in mind I do that during resizing also to try and get them as coaxial as possible. The downward resistance results in the cases binding more to the shell holder and not self centering if you just pound them.
All these little tricks yield little improvements, but enough of them add up to better SD's and groups if I do my part behind the trigger. While this is no a BR caliber, I try to not break protocol regardless of what caliber I am loading. Gets to a point where taking care is an effortless task as long as there's good tunes on the radio and my coffee isn't cold.
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