That's the way I do it too, but in this case the ram stops before the die makes it to the shell holder.
Well Gents, mystery solved. Re-lubed 2 cases and set the die to bottom out on the shell holder.
I'm not understanding, wdill. Why can't you just screw the die down further into the press?
When I resize straight-walled cases, I run the ram all the way up, screw the die in until it touches the shell holder, back the ram down, and finally screw the die down another 1/16 of a turn or so - that takes all of the play out of the press, and ensures my strait-walled cases
are full-length resized.
Now I know the 7mm Rem Mag is
not a straight-walled case. In fact, it's a
belted magnum - like several of the belted magnums
I load for. And in that case, you should pay a lot of attention to what Blue68f100 said:
1/16" is a lot. Be careful moving the shoulder back too far. You will be setting your self up for case head separation.
If you keep setting the shoulders back on belted magnum cases, so that they continue to headspace on their belts instead of on their shoulders like most bottlenecked rifle cartridge cases, you're setting yourself up for early case head separation.
However, if you don't set the shoulders back just a little, there will be a little resistance when you close your rifle's bolt. How much resistance you want to tolerate is up to you. Getting it where you want it will require some experimentation.