Thread: Trying something, Eric Cortina method of load development

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

How do you know 40 wont chamber and eject and not just one or two ? I run all my Ackley reloads through the chamber to check em and some batches get a few tight ones that resize themselves when chambered. At home you can bang the bolt down with your palm - something you dont want to do in the field.

40 was the amount of loaded rounds I checked in the rifle chamber at home (after my mate made the comment about some being hard to chamber) where I felt resistance before the bolt was all the way closed, I'm confident they would all chamber just they require a bit of effort to do so (as stated my mate chambered and shot them successfully), Are you saying that I can use the chamber to bump the shoulder back ? Some where not as bad as others but I would have thought that forcing the bolt down to bump the shoulder back would still not result in a round that chambers smoothly (ie:with just the smallest amount of resistance).
I still feel this is not a good idea as bumping the shoulder back after seating the projectile would move the projectile in relation to the lands ?
Anyone else got any thoughts on this before I pull 40 rounds and go through all the effort of salvaging the powder, depriming, resizing, re primimg, recharging and then re seating ?