Simon Catinski
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So…. I finally got some brass in and loaded up a few rounds of .505 to test when I get my rifle back from the gunsmith, while seating the bullets (Barnes TSX and Woodleigh RN SP) I noticed that I was having a difficult time getting them to seat “square”, I have reloaded other calibers (7.5 swiss, .308, 30-06, .458 win….) and have never had a this problem of getting them seated correctly.
Some have a fair bit of wobble when rolled on a table others aren’t bad.
So questions:
1, any easier way to seat the bullets to have them more or less drop in square?
2, obviously it would affect accuracy to some degree so ideally 0 offset is preferable but how much before accuracy suffers?
3, is there any safety concerns in sending them down range as they are, obviously its not ideal but I did just load 10 for function test to make sure rifle goes bang and cycles some common bullets.
Attached is the most extreme example by far. The others at worst are 1/2 as bad with a few with 0 visible wobble when rolled.
Some have a fair bit of wobble when rolled on a table others aren’t bad.
So questions:
1, any easier way to seat the bullets to have them more or less drop in square?
2, obviously it would affect accuracy to some degree so ideally 0 offset is preferable but how much before accuracy suffers?
3, is there any safety concerns in sending them down range as they are, obviously its not ideal but I did just load 10 for function test to make sure rifle goes bang and cycles some common bullets.
Attached is the most extreme example by far. The others at worst are 1/2 as bad with a few with 0 visible wobble when rolled.
