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Originally Posted by Edward429451
It is seated too deep, and you started .1 below max? You may get away with shooting them, but it could be helpful to rethink your loading practices. If you had worked it up from a start load, then you would be very familiar with the load characteristics and wouldn't have needed to ask the question.
Being a newbie to reloading is not a good time to try to cut corners with load development. That is how guns get KB'd. I'm not trying to offend you, but start loads are there for a reason.
I've never been able to understand why noobs disregard start loads. Is it a macho thing? Will the people at the range laugh because some guy is shooting start loads and not max? How could they even tell?
There's a lot of noobs on this board, and few experts (I'm neither). Be careful whose advice you take since you don't know the ins and out of it yet.
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This is my second batch of reloads, and I made 2 small batches my first go-around...one at the minimum charge (4.7) and one at 4.9. I decided I liked the 4.9 more and actually seemed to have better groups between the two loads. SO I made this batch consisting of all 4.9.
Since now that I have a charge I like, I made this (larger) batch with the goal of not only further evaluating the 4.9 charge, but also toying with different levels of crimp. It just so happens I misread the manual for this batch and seated the bullets a little too deep and was thus seeking advice on the situation.
Is this approach unreasonable (beyond the obvious of screwing up the OAL of this most recent batch)? Any other tips on how to go about working up a load would be welcomed.