Thread: How deep to seat?
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Old 04-18-2005, 06:34 PM
Varmint Hunter Varmint Hunter is offline
 
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A rule of thumb.....
Seat the bullets so that there is no less than one bullet diameter (.243 in your case) of bearing surface in the case neck. The boattail does not count because it does not bear against the case neck.

Just my 2 cents - VH
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