After discovering that I was seating my 300 win mag too deep at 3.340 instead of just off the lands, I am wondering if my 22-250 and 25-06 should be seated just off the lands too as the manual didn't say anything about seating it off the lands for those calibers other than the max COL. Do any of you guys even follow the max COL for the Nosler bullets or just seat it just off the lands? I know my rem 700 magazines has plenty of room to accomodate the longer length so that's not a factor.

Yeah I always seat mine as far as the throat or magazine box will take it, especially with Ballistic Tips. I seat all bullets tho as far out as I can get away with in that fire arm.

It also lowers pressure, and allows more velocity, depending on a few things.
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seafire

Thanks guys this clarifies alot for me. About how much should the bullet be seated off the lands?

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Originally posted by SuperMagnum:
Thanks guys this clarifies alot for me. About how much should the bullet be seated off the lands?

I usually seat a dummy round a little then ram it into the chamber with the bolt, then extract it and set my seating die to that length, then tighten down the die another 1/8 to 1/4 a turn.... NOT to scientific but it works well.

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seafire

I don't think there's any hard and fast rule as to how far off the lands to seat a bullet. For most of my rifles I seat about .005 off the lands, but admittedly some do better at .030 or .040" off. Each rifle is an entity unto itself. Best wishes.

Cal - Montrealk

I seat most bullets about .015 off the lands, but most bullets are seated by the length of the magazine as the throats are longer than the magazine so the bullets have to jump a good deal on most factory rifles...

The truth be a rifle will shoot or it won't, you may tweek a couple of thousands with changing seating depths, but on a big game rifle its a useless endevor IMO...