Easy solution,


http://www.eabco.com/BRFollower.html


Hence screw the mag, and single feed the rounds in the action instead.  Trust me, coming out of a mag is the fastest way to end up with bullets not being concentric ( even after they have been trued).


As for COL, forget that number and think ogive contact AOL instead.  Hence until you uniform the Metplat to the same ogive contact points to OAL unify the bullet lengths themselves, your never going to use the bullet tip for any lenght number.

As for your .002" jump, make sure that your machine can hold that number.  I run .003" jumps to lands with BTP bullets (flat tail bullets can jump up to .080" and they don't know the difference), but I reloading a machine that will hold .001" verances.  Hence if you machine will only hold .006", then you will need to bump your holds out to .008" for your longest Ogive point rounds, which will end up with .002" shortest ogive points in the mix as well.

To sum it up, you need jump for all the bullets, instead of ending up with some jumping on firing, and some inbedding on loading instead (and pressure spiking all to hell as well).  If you are reloading flat base bullet, you can jump them longer, since its really only Boat tail bullets that don't want to jump much isntead (pressure behind the bullet and how it effects the case neck on ignition during embedding).

I always call it long loading, but with having throat leads now short reamed on all my match barrels, end up with shorter than standard COL to get a .003" jump instead.


Also, make sure that if you are only jumping a few thousands, take the time to clean up/ogive match your bullet seating stem.

Total shite to begin with,


The foot print that it made to the bullet that is less than ideal to begin with,


Cleaned up and ogive matched (part of that press .001" uniformity variance that my press will hold to).