gordicans wrote:"so each round in your batch still has variations in jump. Measure your rounds, batch them bý variation in ogive length, then run them through the mic die to dial that variation out and make them all identical in jump"
Bladeracer but you can do exactly the same thing using calipers no?
Yep, you still need calipers regardless. The caliper gives you the information, the dial on the die is where you input that information. I just mark the top of my seating die into .001" or .0005" increments - basically one-sixth and one-twelfth of a turn.
You've determined that you want to seat your bullets for exactly .012" of jump for example, so you want your rounds to measure 2.018" at the exact ogive diameter of your chamber. You set up your seating die to turn out a batch of 100 rounds at 2.022" say. Then you measure them and batch them by length, you might have 3x2.0245", 7x2.240",18x2.0235", 45x2.0230", 19x2.02250", 6x2.0220", and 2x2.0215". Then you put a 2.0225" round in the mic die, run the stem down onto the bullet, adjust it down another .0045", and seat those rounds, measuring them to confirm. Then wind it down another .0005" and run the 2.0230" rounds through it, and so on.