Today I had my Wyoming Armory 1885 in 32-40 out to get sight settings with my new Hi-Lux 20x ( Unertl copy ) scope.

I guess I had my breech seater set for one of my other rifles and it was fully engraving the base band.  Previously I was engraving about 1/2 of it.  I knew something odd was happening because there would be lead slivers on the end of my breech seater when I pullet it out!

This is a bullet Steve Brooks made for me.  .322" base band seated in a 0.319" groove.  You can see the whole base band is getting shaved off and pushed to the rear with chunks coming off. 

Still it wanted to shoot.  I did get two really nasty flyers in the 21 ring, but some good clusters in the 25 ring.  There are 3 shots in the cluster @ 6 o'clock and 2 in the cluster at 2 o'clock.  I was surprised it worked that well.  I will probably try my Hoch bullet in this one as it has a smaller diameter base band.   

So maybe a little over groove is OK, but maybe 0.003" is too much!

The target shown is 8 of 10 shots @ 200m.   The two flyers are too ugly to post

Chris.

Yeah I should have dedicated seaters for each rifle.  That would solve some problems.  But I have quite a few rifles so this could get expensive.  Maybe I need a bpjack monthly breech seater subscription.

Chris.