COL specs

[Northwind]

I am relatively new to reloading rifle cartridges; my question is related to the issue of C.O.L. / seating depth. Since I plan on loading 22-250 cartridges for more than one rifle I do not want to base my seating depth on a particular chamber / rifle. Is it OK or even recommended to set the seating depth so at the published C.O.L. in my reloading manuals?

 

[dantec]

if you plan to load amo for several rifles best respice I can give

without nothing except a caliper

You select your bullet, you load a dummy, NO POWDER NO PRIMER ) you seat at max lenght and before to chamber you paint your bullet in balck with a thick point paper marker, by the way you check IF you are in the land or not

without a bit more equipement

If you have more time you can to split a case neck, following the axis with a small hand saw or a dremel cutting disd to create somthing look as a spring collet case neck, you seat your bullet in your modified case with the maxi lenght you can, you chamber, because you neck is split the bullet will enter in neck easy and stay in position as sson as the bullet have reach the engraving, you carefull extract /eject

you do that one for each chamber, after you check OAL with a caliper and you keep the OAL as reference DIM, shorter chamber )

and you set you OAL at DIM less, minus ) 0.02 that enought to be really safe and avoid any engraving condition .

Caution : engraving VARY A LOT following the bullet shape in a regular design chamber so repeat the respice for each bullet you plan to use and carefully record all parmeters in a log book

good shooting

DAN TEC

 

[Cheechako]

northwind

You asked a straighforward question and you deserve a straightforward answer. That answer is yes. The reason most reloading manuals will specify a standard OAL is because they have no way of knowing what particular rifle you may be using. A standard OAL will allow you to use the ammo in just about any rifle you want. The only exception may be a custom rifle with a custom chamber, but from your question I assume that will not be the case. So load your ammo to the standard OAL, go forth and slay all those rocks and tin-cans. When you reach the point that you are ready to get into custom handloading for a custom rifle and chamber, plenty of advice is there for you.,maybe too much). Have fun.

Ray