Breech seating

Spindrift

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Wow. That is absolutely, deeply amazing. Actually, I didn’t know you could get that level of accuracy with cast bullets!
By the way, the Carmichael article on 6mm/col was very interesting, will try the concept in 6,5x55
 

johnnyjr

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Wow. That is absolutely, deeply amazing. Actually, I didn’t know you could get that level of accuracy with cast bullets!
By the way, the Carmichael article on 6mm/col was very interesting, will try the concept in 6,5x55
I tried letting the bullets jump like his article mentioned. Was not happy with the results. Then I got to thinking that the bullet alloy was to hard. I can't remember if he mentioned his alloy or not..
 

Snakeoil

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Having the bullets seated so there is a slight jump to the rifling is really a jacketed bullet technique and can work quite well.

For my 03, I seat the bullets deep enough into the case so they will feed thru the magazine. So, that means there is some jump. I normally shoot 20:1 in my 03 and I'm very pleased with the accuracy. I've won more than my fair share of matches with that rifle out to 500 yds. These are GC bullets.

I breach seat my .32-40 and as I posted in my .32-40 thread, with the properly sized bullet, which is tapered, I shot a 0.559 5 shot group at 100 yds. And my barrel is far from pristine being an original High Wall barrel that was freshened up to 0.326 and still shows pitting. I use 30:1 in that rifle. Bullets are plain base.
 

nanuk

Member
I love to read about new different techniques
and the accuracy attainable is amazing
While I am mostly a hunter at heart, there's nothing wrong with having an accurate rifle while doing it.
And for the hunting I do these days, HV is not needed. In fact, subsonic would work just fine!