HarryPottar
NES Member
Hi All,
Back again with more questions, still building my precision hand loading set up. I'm shooting a bunch of match grade factory ammo (Federal Gold Medal 308 168 grain with Sierra MatchKing) at the moment that I got on sale ($0.90 per round) and collecting brass. Loving my Ruger Precision Rifle, so my main "aim" is to shoot this thing as much as possible and building the hand loading set up for those long winter nights.
I received the Hornady Lock n Load Ammo Concentricity Gauge, I also ordered the Hornady Neck Wall Thickness Gauge which adapts the former to a neck thickness gauge, however that was on back order.
I'm in no rush, so I can wait, but while I do my research and I do love to research, I found this nice looking tool from Sinclair (Link), which uses a nice digital read out.
Nice tool, around the $160-170 mark. But I also stumbled across this on Amazon (Link),
From the blurb this one is more precise in the measurement Resolution 0.00005"/0.001mm vs 0.0001on the Sinclair and a lot cheaper $55.95 coupled with a stand (Link) $16.99 it's makes what looks like a nice tool.
My thoughts, the Lock n Load Neck Wall Thickness Gauge is around the same price $53 and you have to fiddle with change over, now granted you're are not using these everyday but I like the thought of an easy to read digital read out of the other too.
Those that do neck thickness gauge, is it worth the extra time, do you see a difference, whats your prefered tool or should I stop and seek professional counseling?
Thanks in advance.
harry
Back again with more questions, still building my precision hand loading set up. I'm shooting a bunch of match grade factory ammo (Federal Gold Medal 308 168 grain with Sierra MatchKing) at the moment that I got on sale ($0.90 per round) and collecting brass. Loving my Ruger Precision Rifle, so my main "aim" is to shoot this thing as much as possible and building the hand loading set up for those long winter nights.
I received the Hornady Lock n Load Ammo Concentricity Gauge, I also ordered the Hornady Neck Wall Thickness Gauge which adapts the former to a neck thickness gauge, however that was on back order.
I'm in no rush, so I can wait, but while I do my research and I do love to research, I found this nice looking tool from Sinclair (Link), which uses a nice digital read out.
Nice tool, around the $160-170 mark. But I also stumbled across this on Amazon (Link),
From the blurb this one is more precise in the measurement Resolution 0.00005"/0.001mm vs 0.0001on the Sinclair and a lot cheaper $55.95 coupled with a stand (Link) $16.99 it's makes what looks like a nice tool.
My thoughts, the Lock n Load Neck Wall Thickness Gauge is around the same price $53 and you have to fiddle with change over, now granted you're are not using these everyday but I like the thought of an easy to read digital read out of the other too.
Those that do neck thickness gauge, is it worth the extra time, do you see a difference, whats your prefered tool or should I stop and seek professional counseling?
Thanks in advance.
harry
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