Yep, couldn't help my OCD self. First of all, it's very well constructed. Nice looking instrument. I didn't like not being able to sit at my bench and see the dial indicator at an angle. So, I mounted it to a board and tilted the whole thing 90 deg using a small hobby vise I had. This enables me to look straight at the indicator at eye level while sitting down.
Now to the nuts and bolts of using it. It's easy to set-up and use. However, using my RCBS casemaster tool which does use v-blocks, I would see substantial differences(more indicated run-out) in run-out than from the Hornady unit. Hmm. But by first measuring the round using the RCBS, then putting the round in the Hornady, I can "tweak" the round to where I end up with virtually no run-out indicated by the RCBS. Less than .002 in most instances. As an side-note, I found some badly loaded rounds that the neck was bent. Time to re-visit my sizing procedures. Not many but enough to pay lots more attention. The strange thing is that the batch was all processed at the same time on the same equipment.
In conclusion: Is all this worth the expense, time, and trouble? Probably not for my Sport. For my .308, maybe. As I have time to actually shoot these tweaked rounds, I'll post back and report the un-altered info.
Hobie...with obviously too much time on his hands.
