I ran across a new tool from Type 1 Designs, it's basically a kinetic style bullet puller that allows you to increase or decrease seathing depth. The designer built this to tune factory ammunition to your rifle. This tool is $170 according to his web page.
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Tune Your Ammo (How to use)
Now while he intended this for non-reloaders, I don't see why this tool won't work on reloads as well. I've got a 100 yard range on my property, I also have a 300 yd range about 10-15 minutes from my house. While I can do seating depth tests at 100 and often do, I like to do them at longer range as well when possible.
I do these tests by loading all my test ammunition to mag length or .020" off the lands when possible. Then I either use a small arbor press and an inline die or a micrometer seating die and a Lee hand press to seat at the 300 yd range. When I'm at my house I go to my bench if needed and it's where I do all my rifles I don't have an inline or micrometer seaters for.
Now I had been looking at a Short Action Customs Infiniti APS die, but it's $450 for the die and a base. Additional seating bases are $50 each and it would run me $600+ to have an inline seating die to cover all the cartridges I can load for. If I were to purchase inline or micrometer seaters, well lets say that isn't in the budget.
I've been asking questions to the inventor. As I'm worried about tapping the bullets closer to the lands and what happens to neck tension. As every cartridge I've pulled the bullet from I have had to neck size again before seating a bullet back in the case. I just felt there wasn't enough tension to hold the bullet properly, by the ease at which they reseated. I've also asked a question of durability with using an arbor press instead of a rubber mallet.
I know seating bullets this tool seems a little cavemanish. But my question then is how many people have loaded accurate ammunition with a Lee Loader and a mallet? I know that I loaded a lot of accurate handloads with an LE Wilson inline seater and a mallet until I bought my Bald Eagle arbor press. So this concept for changing seating depth on factory ammunition doesn't seem that unreasonable to me, nor does using it to run seating depth tests at the range with handloads.
Shrink Your Groups
Tune Your Ammo (How to use)
Now while he intended this for non-reloaders, I don't see why this tool won't work on reloads as well. I've got a 100 yard range on my property, I also have a 300 yd range about 10-15 minutes from my house. While I can do seating depth tests at 100 and often do, I like to do them at longer range as well when possible.
I do these tests by loading all my test ammunition to mag length or .020" off the lands when possible. Then I either use a small arbor press and an inline die or a micrometer seating die and a Lee hand press to seat at the 300 yd range. When I'm at my house I go to my bench if needed and it's where I do all my rifles I don't have an inline or micrometer seaters for.
Now I had been looking at a Short Action Customs Infiniti APS die, but it's $450 for the die and a base. Additional seating bases are $50 each and it would run me $600+ to have an inline seating die to cover all the cartridges I can load for. If I were to purchase inline or micrometer seaters, well lets say that isn't in the budget.
I've been asking questions to the inventor. As I'm worried about tapping the bullets closer to the lands and what happens to neck tension. As every cartridge I've pulled the bullet from I have had to neck size again before seating a bullet back in the case. I just felt there wasn't enough tension to hold the bullet properly, by the ease at which they reseated. I've also asked a question of durability with using an arbor press instead of a rubber mallet.
I know seating bullets this tool seems a little cavemanish. But my question then is how many people have loaded accurate ammunition with a Lee Loader and a mallet? I know that I loaded a lot of accurate handloads with an LE Wilson inline seater and a mallet until I bought my Bald Eagle arbor press. So this concept for changing seating depth on factory ammunition doesn't seem that unreasonable to me, nor does using it to run seating depth tests at the range with handloads.
