GWarden
Active Member
I joined the group about a year ago, and in my intro I mentioned I breech seated for some of my rifles. The question was asked if I would explain how it was done and maybe show a few photos if possible. Well, here it is almost a year later and I hope I can answer the question on breech seating. Starting at the top, a plugged case that can be used for breech seating. Hopefully you can see that the brass plug extends past the mouth of the case. When the bullet is placed in front of the plugged case and both pushed into the rifle and the action closed the bullet is pushed into the rifling and the base of the bullet will be in front of the case. Usually a rather soft bullet mix is used in breech seating; 25:1 or even softer. Rifles that are set up for breech seating will have a tapered area so that the bullet; which is also tapered will have a good fit for the bullet. The second from the top is a "push seater". The bullet fits down in the case, and when pushed into the chamber the seater will push the bullet ahead of the mouth of the case. Third and fourth seaters are "toggle seaters". As the name implies these seaters will do the best job of seating, but cannot be used on all single shot rifles. Will at a later time; much sooner than a year show some photos of the seater with a rifle, and also how breech seating improves accuracy over fixed ammo. Hope this helps on "breech seating.
bob
bob