Greetings. Fairly new to reloading. Couple of months into it.
When I am seating bullets (Sierra 168 TMK into Winchester brass), using a Lee Breech Lock Challenger press and Lee die, I cannot get the die to hold the seating depth constant for two cartridges in a row. Invariably, the next bullet will be .003 to .005 shorter than the previous. I measure every cartridge with a Wixey digital caliper. So I adjust the die back out and have to sneak up on the correct COAL. This takes at least three iterations of adjust/measure/re-seat for every cartridge. This takes much longer than I would expect. Or is this normal? I would have expected that once you have your die set up with the first cartridge, it would not change and you could punch out a bunch of cartridges without having to measure every one.
Thanks for your input