Pomes Dumb questions thread

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Can you make a dummy round with no primer to check seating depth? (sorry for the dumb question, Grandparents on mothers side were English)

Yep, no powder either. Seat it too long, hook it behind the extractor and chamber carefully. Initially you won't even get close to closing the bolt. Keep seating it deeper until you need a bit of force to close the bolt. There will be rifling marks on the projectile. Sand them off with fine steel wool/wetndry sand paper. Seat a bit deeper and repeat until you don't see the marks. Then you will be about right.
Then use this round to seat your seating die. Although if you are only using one type of projectile your seating die should be set.