Ron,
Can you please elaborate? Like I said I don't have much experience with bottlenecked cartridges, but wouldn't proper length be crucial for feeding and chambering and if you were to start short and increase length at the same powder charge decrease pressure and changing the velocity and pressure ? I'm interested to learn this too.
Sure I can elaborate a little. The question posed was:
Do you folks get powder charge right first , or seating depth?
Thanks in advance
Then there was my reply:
Between those two and only those two powder charge.
Ron
Normally with some exceptions I have my order of events for reloading a cartridge, I figure most here do. My once fired brass is pretty clean and I do not pick up range brass with few exceptions. again this is just me. The following while not always the case is pretty much how it goes for me. Bottle neck rifle brass.
1. I lube and resize the brass. Since the brass is pretty clean I am not worried about dirt. I also keep my loading dies clean.
2. Since full length resizing normally gives you brass longer than you stated with I now trim the brass. This is where I want all my brass trimmed uniformly.
3. Now I toss the brass in a tumbler and clean it. When cleaning I like clean primer pockets so after shaking it out I check my pockets for any remaining media.
4. I have an RCBS case prep center with primer pocket brush and also allows easy chamfer inside and outside my case necks. I can also run each case up and down on an inside case brush
5. Using a powdered lube like Mica I just get the insides of the case necks.
6. I charge the cases be it hand weighing each charge on any of several scales or using a RCBS throw or RCBS Chargemaster. Regardless, this is the point where I charge my cases.
7. I seat my bullets.
The order is always subject to change depending on any number of variables. However, looking at the original post " Do you folks get powder charge right first , or seating depth"? Between those two I charge and seat in that order. One reason I get a little fanatical about trim is I want my brass as close to identical as possible. I just figure the idea behind ammunition be it hand loads or commercial starts with uniformity. I don't give seating depth a thought till a whole bunch of other things have been addressed.
Ron