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Originally Posted by Skip Sackett
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If you get Phil Sharpe's book, from the 1930s, you will see that seating depth of each bullet is listed, not OAL. Why? Because they knew that the amount of the bullet in the case was tons more important than OAL will ever be. Of course, as in a host of other things, we need to relearn what has already been known. They forgot more than we will ever know because we forget to learn what they knew!
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FWIW
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Not the first time you have mentioned Phil Sharpe's
Complete Guide To Handloading - a treatise on handloading for pleasure. Just found a copy in "Collectible Condition" from Amazon.
It should be here within the next couple of weeks.
Thanks for the tip! ~ Alan