Can you explain what a stripped bolt meathod is? I hear it a lot, but have no idea
I see Jim beat me to it, and while I agree it's a more accurate way to find the lands .... it's still just a reference point.
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Can you explain what a stripped bolt meathod is? I hear it a lot, but have no idea
Thank you!Remove the firing pin and ejector from your bolt. Seat a bullet long and adjust your seating depth until you find touch.
That works awesome and you don't need any additional tools other than a caliper to record your numbers. Once you have the touch number, you can work the other way with a freshly sized piece of brass to establish a jam length number. Or, you can find jam first then touch. It doesn't matter. What matters is that in the end you have two measurements recorded that allows you the ability to play around with various seating depths in an educated fashion instead of guessing where you are at any particular seating depth.
stripped bolt method works great on customs. Not so great with savage actions. get a stoney point and practice until you have consistency.
didnt mean to criticize you - just giving my opinion to the op. for me anyway its nearly impossible to get the same measurement twice ina row with one of those length gauges because you are pushing the bullet into the rifling and i cant stop it the same spot consistently. other methods are more consistent for most people i have talked to. see alex wheelers video on utube or his websiteWhat's so terrible about it? I'd rather it be metal like the original SP, but other than that it works for me. Now I only use it for a reference point, but by sound of it the OP is flying blind. It was the obvious thing I saw he needed. I figure it's an entry level setup, but then I'm a entry level chooter... lol
stripped bolt method works on a remington to. i dont have a savage so you may be right. please explain that?stripped bolt method works great on customs. Not so great with savage actions. get a stoney point and practice until you have consistency.
be careful if you decide to strip your bolt. easy to lose some parts. do it inside a ziplock.
yeah its a reference point that you can measure with your comparator and save that measurement for that bullet in that gun. by comparator im talking about the ones that measure from ogive
I see Jim beat me to it, and while I agree it's a more accurate way to find the lands .... it's still just a reference point.
yeah its a reference point that you can measure with your comparator and save that measurement for that bullet in that gun.
didnt mean to criticize you - just giving my opinion to the op. for me anyway its nearly impossible to get the same measurement twice ina row with one of those length gauges because you are pushing the bullet into the rifling and i cant stop it the same spot consistently. other methods are more consistent for most people i have talked to. see alex wheelers video on utube or his website
i dont want to argue either and like we said different strokes different folks- if your way works for you thats great- weve given the op some good info and he can do it the way he wantsRight on... not trying to argue, and your 100% right about it being a more accurate method. I've had readings 0.010 different when I'm using the Hornady tool, but I feel like when your used to it you get a feel for which measurement is true. I measure 6 or 8 times and average the measurement from the readings I felt were right. I usually back of 0.015 from the measurement I deem my reference point. I'm sure Alex is right about my method being a jam measurement as well....
A comparator so you can adjust seating depth using a method that is superior to using overall length. Sinclair makes a nice one. Hornady gets bad rapped, but you will see a ton of them at any SR group shoot so how crappy can they really be?
Get the Tony Boyer book and/or the Mike Ratigan book. There are some real nuggets of wisdom in there.
Where do you shoot sr group? In 22yrs i havent seen a hornady nothing at a match but i will agree that tonys book is a good next purchase
I’ve only shot one match in Fairchance, but I attended a couple others at the same venue to observe what guys were doing at the loading bench. I saw quite a few red comparator bodies, so I can only assume they were Hornady.
Oh when you said seating depth i thought you meant that goofy threaded case thing people stick in their chambers. The thing that attaches to calipers i see the green ones and sometimes the red ones