Are these rounds seating to deep?

[Yellowfever440]

I have a howa 1500 barreled in 6.5 creedmoor, i'm new to reloading, and i just set up my basic rcbs dies. I was shooting for an ogive measurement of 2.175" and i set one at 2.039" and one at 2.115". Would still be safe to fire? They aren't very hot charges, they are 38.5 gr of h4350 with a 129 gr hornady sst on top. THanks for any input.



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[Huskydriver]

Well first you need to measure where your lands are. From there you set up your seating die.

 

[Yellowfever440]

Sorry, thats how I came up with my 2.175 measurement that I wanted set off the lands .010.

 

[Huskydriver]

Then yes you should be fine as long as you know your short of the lands. Generally speaking anything short of being against or jammed into the lands will have a lower pressure peak than an all else being equal equivalent round forced into the rifling.

 

[Yellowfever440]

Ok so if i chamber a round and pull it back out and it doesnt have anything land marks on it i am good as well correct?

 

[Huskydriver]

That is a basic way of checking yes and you should be good. You can get more precise using other methods but that is one way to skin that cat.

 

[Yellowfever440]

Awesome thanks, I have a oal gauge and modified case and all, I just wanted to make sure that seating them that much deeper wasn't going to remove my face or anything. I was just nervous and new to it, thanks a bunch.

 

[Huskydriver]

Na if you were crunching powder with stupid amounts of neck tension I dunno maybe it's possible the pressure wave would spike funny as that round jumped to the rifling but I highly doubt it. Your only in a little over .1 with a middle of the road charge I think it will just show up on paper as a flier.