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Thanks all, I will check it out, got too busy last night and could not get to the bench.

That's awesome, 1.5", man I would pleased with that. I measured a new LC round shell case prior to shooting, it came in at 2.005, the others did too, but after firing, well, you know that story. I'll do some sizing on them tonight.

When I sat down to look at them I was just surprised to see a .020 to .024 increase in the case length, hence my question on what is "normal", is that not a bit much? I know the brass, wall thickness, etc all contribute, but it just seemed like alot. I am having accuracy problems with the...

You are spot on Birddog and Fred, I found it Saturday night when I noticed the case lengths, here is the link to it if anyone else is curious, it really goes into great detail. http://www.zediker.com/downloads/14_loading.pdf I fired off an email to Springfield to see what I get back from...

Thank you birddog, I will have to pick up a case trimmer, I have about 200 pounds of once fired LC 5.56 from my days in the Navy and have only be reloading a short while, so I have not ran into a case that I need to trim.....yet, but it looks like those days are over, ha ha...

I had posted this in the rifle section, not realizing there was a handloading section, my mistake. I have a new "used" M1A, was told it has less than 200 rounds through it. According by serial number it is a 2005 model year, scout squad. I sat down to load up some rounds for it and found...

Thank you all, I did not see the Handloading section, my bad. The case length is before I resize, I just thought that was alot for one firing, I am using mil-surp LC ammo at this point, I have not fired any commerical in it yet. I will repost this in the Handloading section if that is...

I have a new "used" M1A, was told it has less than 200 rounds through it. According by serial number it is a 2005 model year, scout squad. I sat down to load up some rounds for it and found that my once fired brass cases, some LC, some Indian .308 were pushing 2.025-2.029 :confused:, while...