lordpaxman
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@JimGnitecki , I understand everything you posted above in #25, but what I was asking was related to your first post:
I get the fact that if the tip deforms the seating depth is less, but the COL should be consistent. ?yes? ?no?
I read that as you were measuring COL and finding a .010” difference. I view the seating step like an arbor press - it has a fixed distance between the base of the cartridge and where the seating step contacts the bullet, in your case the tip. So if that distance is fixed, is the press flexing, or something else moving during the seating step or something perhaps is “springing back” inconsistently after the seating step?I have been finding that despite all my efforts to consistently apply the same stroke with the same pressure on every stroke of the press handle, I am getting some variation in cartridge overall length, when I measure from base of cartridge to tip of the bullet hollowpoint (I have no tool to measure from base of cartridge to ogive for this 9mm pistol cartridge).
I get the fact that if the tip deforms the seating depth is less, but the COL should be consistent. ?yes? ?no?