When I read the Ned Roberts book on Schuetzen rifles I noticed he mentioned several times that when loading fixed ammo  he seated bullets friction tight.
At the time I was reading I assumed he meant that he was seating bullets with his fingers in unsized fire formed cases.
  Now its been a while since I read the book but suddenly I question my first assumption.  I recently started thinking that maybe by the term "" friction tight"" he meant that he was tightly seating bullets in sized cases.
  Now I dont know what to think. He mentions several time seating bullets with one or two bands in the case and friction tight.  Anyone care to take a stab at what he meant by "" friction fit ?   In my 32-40 Stevens with fireformed cases unsized a .322" bullet seats with enough resistance that they are hard to seat with your fingers but when seating with the press and seating die almost no felt resistance. That is what is shooting good fo me when loading fixed ammo. This ammo has a couple drive bands in the case and a couple out with the Saeco 200gn tapered.

That is kind of what I am doing too in the 32-40 accept that with a .322" diameter bullet no case sizing is needed.  I am flaring the neck just a wee bit with a Lee universal neck expander then set the seating die to just take out the flare with no crimp.  With that I am getting about 2.5" groups at 100 yards with peep sight.
  I feel that it will improve some with full breach seating but this is a good off hand practice load.  I am trying to locate some reprints of the original 40 rod Schuetzen targets as I want to try my hand at the old schuetzen game.

Very interesting!  What all this means is that we don't really know what he meant by the term  "" friction fit "" or "" friction tight""
I think I will look at it as him meaning not tight but not loose.
Sound about right ?

Its very interesting to hear of other folks ideas and methods.