Here's definition of all three - http://blog.sinclairintl.com/2009/03/26/determining-bullet-seating-depth/918v said:The Leade/Throat/Freebore (people use these terms interchangably)
Throat/Leade – Interchangeable with leade. The throat is located just forward of the chamber and is the tapered entrance leading to where the rifling begins in the barrel. The throat is an area of the rifling that has been relieved/machined to allow the bullet clearance prior to reaching the rifling. This is sometimes referred to as the unrifled section of the bore or free bore.
Throat/Leade – Interchangeable with leade. The throat is located just forward of the chamber and is the tapered entrance leading to where the rifling begins in the barrel. The throat is an area of the rifling that has been relieved/machined to allow the bullet clearance prior to reaching the rifling. This is sometimes referred to as the unrifled section of the bore or free bore.
I've just started reloading and want to make sure I've got this correct. I'm working on a .45acp load with a 230gr LRN bullet. The shortest OAL that will reliably plunk in my XDs barrel is 1.622. Both of my loading manuals suggest 1.267 to 1.270 as the minimum OAL for the powders I have (Green Dot and True Blue). If I understand things correctly, I can load those up at the shorter OAL and back off the powder a bit? Start at, say, 6.2 grains instead of 6.4 and treat 7.2 grains as the maximum instead of 7.4?
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Maybe put it in the Library of Wisdom