lroy Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Plunking every round into the barrel has gotten old. I was looking into picking up a hundo gauge. I shoot coated 1.18 in my 2011. Am I correct in thinking the hundo xl is the right one? Seems like it's for longer lengths, but required to work with coated bullets. Will this gauge diameter as well as the length? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Case gauges are primarily for the diameter of the round, not the length. For the OAL, trust your press...your rounds should be a bit shorter than your chamber anyway...if you are loading them up to exact chamber length, you are asking for trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rnlinebacker Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Plunking every round into the barrel has gotten old. I was looking into picking up a hundo gauge. I shoot coated 1.18 in my 2011. Am I correct in thinking the hundo xl is the right one? Seems like it's for longer lengths, but required to work with coated bullets. Will this gauge diameter as well as the length? XL is what you need for 40 major, correctSent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lroy Posted October 9, 2020 Author Share Posted October 9, 2020 1 hour ago, GrumpyOne said: Case gauges are primarily for the diameter of the round, not the length. For the OAL, trust your press...your rounds should be a bit shorter than your chamber anyway...if you are loading them up to exact chamber length, you are asking for trouble. Well that would explain my last match being a FTF fest. If 1.18 is recommended OAL, what should my press be set to optimally to account for variance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 The recommended OAL may not be the correct OAL for your barrel. Do the plunk test, and find the correct length for your barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnbb33 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) The easiest way I have found is to determine oal is take a spent case, not sized or anything, shove a projectile on to the end of it, then push this into the chamber until the bullet is seated all the way. Then measure that case, that’s your max oal for that chamber and projectile. Back off your loading oal the desired amount from the max, example .015 below max oal. Yes xl40 does longer rounds, that would be the one you want. Edited October 16, 2020 by Tnbb33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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