Recent content by Collegefour

Well, sounds like the consensus is not enough lube, so I'll try putting on more. I'm a little leery of doing that due to some warnings I've read about denting case shoulders, but I guess I'll try it....lord knows I'm thrashing enough cases anyway. The brass does seem to have small flash holes...

I am still new to reloading, and so far have only done a bunch of .223. I bought 1000 rounds of PRVI 5.56 ammo awhile back, and have been shooting it when I go to the range. I've started to reload the brass, but I'm having serious problems with it. I have broken/mangled two RCBS die interiors...

Good questions, Mal, but you're talking a bit over my head. Remember, I've only been doing this for less than a month. As for how the brass got that long, I do not know. I will correct myself and say that 50 of the rounds were TWICE fired, but all the rest were fired only once. They were all...

kestak, No, I didn't check for any notch with a paper clip. Why would you do that? I can fully attest that all the brass is once fired, as I bought all of it new and shot it myself.

Hmmm...food for thought, counter. Thanks. So it turns out that exactly 200 of the finished rounds were over by anywhere from .002 to .016. I think I'm going to segregate them by .008 and below vs. .009 and above, and I'll shoot the .008 and below carefully, one at a time, and look for excessive...

Counter, I can't blame you for thinking I might be trolling, but I'm not. I am just upset that I could do something so stupid after all the reading and practice I did before I started reloading. I'm not going to pull apart 350 rounds, that's for sure. I am willing to go back and re-measure the...

I just started reloading about three weeks ago. I have only been doing .223, but I've done about 350 rounds. I just discovered that I didn't know how to read a dial caliper, so many of the rounds I've finished have case lengths of 1.776 instead of 1.76. Luckily, due to the same erroneous way I...

I won a RCBS Rock Chucker kit at the NRA national meeting in Phoenix last month. I had absolutely NO reloading experience whatsoever. I asked the RCBS rep why they included a hand primer tool when the press could do it. He replied that it was their not-so-subtle way of telling their customers to...