Well, my Hornady Concentricity Gauge finally came in yesterday.
First impressions, very solidly made. Feels of good constructions. Base is solid.
Decided to practice on some old factory Remington Core-lokt rounds in .243. Setup instructions kind of sucked. Not very good. Watched a You Tube video of some guy with and Australian accent and he did a great job on showing how to setup the press. Much easier to understand than the instructions from Hornady.
After I finally got the hang of it, which was within 20 rounds, I decided to check some old hunting rounds that I put together when I first started reloading 3 years ago. My 7mm Rem Mag loads.
Out of the 10 I checked last night, there were 2 rounds that were .004"+ runout. There were 5 that the runout was around the .002" runout mark and then there were 3 that were around the .0005" runout mark (about halfway to the .001 mark).
I put the 8 good rounds back in the box, and decided to test the correcting part of this new tool.
One round was .006" runout and the other was .005" runout. Both of them were extremely easy to correct. Both got corrected to .001" runout after one pass with the correcting feature.
Out of 5 stars, I would give it 4.5. If the instructions were better, I would give it a full 5 stars. Great little tool. Wish I had bought it sooner.
I'm no professional, just your typical avg joe and figured I'd give a review.
First impressions, very solidly made. Feels of good constructions. Base is solid.
Decided to practice on some old factory Remington Core-lokt rounds in .243. Setup instructions kind of sucked. Not very good. Watched a You Tube video of some guy with and Australian accent and he did a great job on showing how to setup the press. Much easier to understand than the instructions from Hornady.
After I finally got the hang of it, which was within 20 rounds, I decided to check some old hunting rounds that I put together when I first started reloading 3 years ago. My 7mm Rem Mag loads.
Out of the 10 I checked last night, there were 2 rounds that were .004"+ runout. There were 5 that the runout was around the .002" runout mark and then there were 3 that were around the .0005" runout mark (about halfway to the .001 mark).
I put the 8 good rounds back in the box, and decided to test the correcting part of this new tool.
One round was .006" runout and the other was .005" runout. Both of them were extremely easy to correct. Both got corrected to .001" runout after one pass with the correcting feature.
Out of 5 stars, I would give it 4.5. If the instructions were better, I would give it a full 5 stars. Great little tool. Wish I had bought it sooner.
I'm no professional, just your typical avg joe and figured I'd give a review.
