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Shelby Martowski

Hello from Canada. Hey guys, being new here I’d like to say hello. To Nathan I’d like to thank you for a awesome site with loads great of information. I have done a fair bit of reading here in the past few days on some very interesting topics.

I’ve been hunting since I was a boy. I shot my first deer with a .243. When I was 18 I bought my first rifle, a Remington 7mm mag. BDL. I’ve been shooting that caliber ever since, 40 years now. I also bought a Sako 85 in the Remington 7mm Ultra Mag back when they first came out in 2000 I think.

I have recently built a reloading bench and plan on getting into reloading. I have had the equipment for a few years now. I always wanted to build a quiet room to do my reloading in. But that never seem to get off the ground, so I built the bench first. Maybe the room will come next.

I have a couple of questions. One on reloading and a general one.

First, the 7mm Ultra Mag I have has had only 30 rounds through it since I bought it new. Is it too late to use your barrel break in procedure on it.?

Second, do you have a method for find the optimum bullet seating depth? I realize there will been some experimenting to find the correct depth that each of my rifles like.

OK one more. Will changing the seating depth from the factory setting have an adverse effect on the barrel life of my 7mm RUM? I wouldn’t think so but like I said I’m new to reloading.
Thanks for the help.