What did I screw up?

[Fragman]

Wait. What?

I think, in laymans terms, what Robertc1024 is saying is that it is almost beer thirty......


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[robertc1024]

Close enough.


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[Vaquero]

How well does your seating stem match the profile of your bullet?
Only time my coal shifted dramatically, I had a RN seating stem and using conical lead cast bullets.
The shavings of lead wound up building up in the cavity of the seating stem.
My coal shrunk.

 

[rp-]

Well I switched to a different caliper yesterday and checked a few. This one only goes to X.XXxx. most of my rounds were still between 1.1240 and 1.1265. Couple were ± another .0010. This was just measuring my rounds I already had made up a few days ago. Looks like the caliper was the culprit. Funny how the 20$ home depot caliper works better than the 120$ fancy one does...

I did also che k some of the bullets. I grabbed 10 off the top and measured length and they measured as follows

.5415
.5420 x2
.5430 x3
.5435 x2
.5440
.5460

Not bad and definitely able to rule them out. Will probably start up again tonight and will report back on coal issues

 

[rp-]

Also, Vaq, the bullets are conical, didn't look into the seating plug other than to make sure there wasn't some crap built up in them. Will look at it tonght

 

[Younggun]

I prefer an analog caliper to digital.

Same with scales. Get close on a digital and double check on a 5-0-5.


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[rp-]

I got a little cheapo mtm brand scale at academy for lime 25$. It works. I have found when I load pistols I will drop 10 times and then average it to figure out how much its dropping. It seems to be much more accurate this was. As for digital, in my younger days when I knew everything I knew that digital was better because it was easier to read. Home depot had both and I chose the digital. If I could do it over I would have chosen the dial ones. There has been more than a few times I've tried to use the damn things and the battery was dead.

 

[Mastiff]

I jumped out and purchased the 6" Mititoyo caliper. I think this is a critically important tool on the bench, so I wanted this or either a Starrett. Analog vs. Digital: I like the digital because I can't see up close very well anymore, so the digital works best for me. Also I handle my caliper carefully and treat it carefully. Some folks like the analog units, nothing wrong with them either. It's a personal preference.