Making a Overall Length Guage

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How to make your own overall length guage on your reloading bench. What this does is allow you to take a empty cartridge case and make a OAL guage that is cheap and one that works. Once you take your initial measurement you should repeat the process three times to confirm the data you're getting. Once you know the measurement set your seating depth deeper by .010" initially. The reason is the seating die seats off the ogive. Bullet tips vary due to manufacturing process but the ogive is constant. Knowing this you'll improve your accuracy potential conciderably. You can experiment to find the "sweet spot". Once you find the best OAL write it down. If you're like me you have several bullets that you use for different shooting scenarios.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: August 28, 2008 at 6:59 am
Author: ammosmith

Length: 00:07:39
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Video Comments:
1967spud (September 1, 2008 at 4:10 pm)
AS USUAL TOP NOTCH
missouriman1972 (August 29, 2008 at 12:08 am)
that works great on bolt action but semi- autos is another storie, they will get stuck in the gun
ammosmith (August 29, 2008 at 1:24 am)
Yes I know. The trick with semi autos is to keep the bullets magazine length.
missouriman1972 (August 29, 2008 at 1:29 am)
ya i went threw that and finally just made them the mag length.lol
ammosmith (August 29, 2008 at 2:45 am)
The only exception is the Hornady A-Max, they need to be seated out.
missouriman1972 (August 29, 2008 at 2:49 am)
I just went with the lenght of the mag for my semi , i have a ruger 22hornet that could take longer than the mag would work with
cadillacredd (August 28, 2008 at 9:29 pm)
kOOL,, tHANK 4 THE INFO.
mreisma (August 28, 2008 at 7:50 am)
sweet
ammosmith (August 28, 2008 at 8:20 am)
Thanks!