Thread: Need help understanding shoulder bump

Originally Posted by yerimaginaryM8

There may be others that disagree with this but I would bump the shoulder absolutely every time you load if you use the rifle for hunting or sooner or later you will strike a sticky piece of brass that will ruin your day -your follow up shot will turn to shit in a heart beat as you wrestle with a stuck or stiff bolt and your target runs or limps off into scrub

This the best practice for hunting rifles and target rifles if shooting long strings of shots it doesn't take much powder fouling in to take up the clearance between case and chamber in tight cut chambers,
for my .308's I have a Redding comp die set, body die and small base bushing die, the small base die gets used the most it's set to bump the case .002" I never have a problem with the bolt closing and can see no
difference in accuracy over full length sized,
You should be able to set the .338 FL die to bump the case .002" with out worrying about the neck not being sized the last .002" in fact it will help centre the case in the chamber, get a set of the Redding comp case holders
to adjust the bump or FL size dies so you don't need the change the die settings.