What's your problem? Your talking about shooting 10 shot groups with a light sporter bbl. Grow up, your not as bright as you think you are. These guns shoot outstanding groups for a lightweight production hunting rifle. I've owned 5 Tikka's, and i've shot 1/4" 3 shot groups or better with...
Interesting. Are these stocks more generous to accommodate the cerakote on those bbl'd actions? Any idea if they are free floated, or if they have the same stop a few inches from the action?
Sounds to me like your just not holding the bullet straight till the seater stem has engaged . You can't just prop them there, as you're looking to start them as plum as possible by feel. 99% of Std green box FL dies with an expander button are capable of making straight ammo .
Most people...
I'll agree that alot of things matter when chasing benchrest type accuracy and making cases more uniform as you say above is a part of shooting small, but I can't see my seating depth being affected by anything you mentioned. Everything you mentioned would however affect neck tension...
I'll also say if you're using nosler and hornady bullets they're going to vary more than a some other mass produced bullets. That means if you're serious about accuracy, and you're going to use those bullets.... your best bet would be sorting them BTO . Good luck.
I agree with WB here.
First thing you should be doing is buying both a Hornady bullet comparator set, and a their headspace kit. No one... NO ONE should be reloading without a good way to measure what you're doing. These will allow you to find the real base to ojive measurement from the...
The hopefully in the above post isn't where you need to be. This is rocket science. You need to be able to measure EVERYTHING, and when that sinks in you'll be making better and safer ammo. The hornady stuff is cheap , and you need it. Good luck.
If your going reload... you need to be able to measure everything . The comparators YZryder suggested will allow you to measure headspace from fired cases as well as allow you to set your shoulder bump up to the needed 0.002 to 0.003 for a hunting rifle.
Once fired brass (in your chamber)...
Interesting.... I bought some 1x fired lapua that looked like it was shot in a gas gun from the gouge on the shoulder. This makes me think it was probably from the AR variety of their ammo.
Nothing feels as good in my hands as a Remington 700, and I've killed a pile of critters with them... But these days I have as many Tikka's living here as 700's . I compete in local club level score matches with Tikka .223 superlite as it's a better mousetrap for that.