An "ohh, shucks!" moment

[former naval person]

Having caught up on my .308 loads, I dragged the box of carefully prepared .243 cases (trimmed, neck turned, inside neck polished, lubed with dry graphite...usual nit-picky stuff) weighed out the powder with my Chargemaster, and carefully seated the bullets, rotating the cases half way through the seating stroke. Boxed them up proudly and turned to store the dies. Then I saw I had used my Redding Precision Micrometer .308 seating die. Awww shucks. Got to do it all over...of course they will be crooked. Thought about it for a minute, and got out my concentricity guage and correct .243 die and reseated ten cartridges to the correct length with the seating die. Spun them in the Sinclair guage. Lo and behold, runout was between .000 and .002 on all ten. Sometimes it pays to be lucky. I don't advise this procedure for routine use, but it says something about the inherent concentricity of the Redding dies. JMHO

 

[Victor N TN]

Re: An "ohh, shucks!" moment

Sometimes you just fall in a bucket of luck. I think you just did.

 

[former naval person]

Re: An "ohh, shucks!" moment

Thanks...I agree. FNP

 

[308sako]

Re: An "ohh, shucks!" moment

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