Bullet seating into the lands.

[KY_Windage]

If it doesn't, every time you use a bullet with a different ogive profile, you have to start again from square one. With the Hornady system, do you not have to take a measurement for each bullet used and they're all different?
If I'm going to measure something relative to the lands, I want to do it right there, not farther down on the bullet.
That's the way I see it anyway, may be totally wrong.

Yes, I have to measure every time I change bullets. But that is easy, takes a couple of minutes, if that. Compared to the hours at the range trying different powder weights and jumps for that new bullet, it is a drop in the lake.

 

[JEFFPPC]

Richard Goody sums this all up with the fact as long as it's repeatable it will work for you. If you do your method several times and get the same answer, good to go. If your results are not repeatable you might need to try another method. If you fudge you only cheat yourself.

 

[HTSmith]

Wow all this over a simple datum point to start seating test from. Doesn't matter what it is as long as it is repeatable. Whatever works for you!

I use the stoney point and tap the rod to what I call a hard jam. Don't believe I could put enough neck tension on a case to pass this point. I find it repeatable and from there I only can go one direction.

I could care less what someone else defines as touch. With a custom action put together by at top Smith that drop of the bolt is a beautiful thing but in the real world lots of actions aren't that smooth. If the barrel has a few tool marks in the throat that could easily make one believe that was touch. My thought after barrel break in there is a good chance touch has moved.

I agree. It ain't worth the time to remove and replace a plunger ejector to me.