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Greetings all,
Have an interesting problem, have a new Rem 700 VTR 308 that I have been reloading for, and have noticed my reloads have quite lot of bullet runout as measured on my RCBS Case Master. As much as 0.012 and as low as .002, most are on the high side, .006+. Using RCBS dies and have tried 2 different bullet seating dies. Also have tried seating partially and rotating the round 1/4 turn for final seating. No joy. Have also measured the neck runout on my resized brass, runs 0.002-0.003.
I've compared my 308's to my 30-06 and my '06 loaded rounds are running 0.002-0.003 for the most part. I do use a Lyman M-die on my '06 loads and wonder if this may be the key.
I'm guessing the pressure from seating the bullet is making the neck "tilt" and is resulting in my large run out situation.
As a side note, I bored a hole just over .320 in my press stand, marked the high spot on the case using the Case master and by hand "bent" the high runout rounds back to within 0.003 run out without much difficulty, I'll shoot those rounds this week and see how I fare.
I'm not a newbie, have been reloading for over 30 years. Any Ideas?
Trapper
Have an interesting problem, have a new Rem 700 VTR 308 that I have been reloading for, and have noticed my reloads have quite lot of bullet runout as measured on my RCBS Case Master. As much as 0.012 and as low as .002, most are on the high side, .006+. Using RCBS dies and have tried 2 different bullet seating dies. Also have tried seating partially and rotating the round 1/4 turn for final seating. No joy. Have also measured the neck runout on my resized brass, runs 0.002-0.003.
I've compared my 308's to my 30-06 and my '06 loaded rounds are running 0.002-0.003 for the most part. I do use a Lyman M-die on my '06 loads and wonder if this may be the key.
I'm guessing the pressure from seating the bullet is making the neck "tilt" and is resulting in my large run out situation.
As a side note, I bored a hole just over .320 in my press stand, marked the high spot on the case using the Case master and by hand "bent" the high runout rounds back to within 0.003 run out without much difficulty, I'll shoot those rounds this week and see how I fare.
I'm not a newbie, have been reloading for over 30 years. Any Ideas?
Trapper