Recent content by FLIGHT762

Before buying another die, try backing off the F/L die a 1/2 turn or more from the shell holder where the die will size enough of the neck to hold a bullet, but not size the case body all the way down. you could likely back off quite a bit. That may work for you.

What do you mean by "oversizing the brass"? Do you mean it is shoving the case shoulder too far back. An easy thing to do is to take a comparator measurement off of the shoulder of the fired cases and adjust your F/L sizing die to only size the case shoulder back to minus .002" from the fired...

If you list what powders you have on hand, someone may be able to help you. Your 1895 Mauser can handle pressures around 50,00 PSI or 46,000 CUP. Not as high as a 98 Mauser action. Hodgdon reloading center has a lot of 7x57 Mauser reloading data with listed pressures. You can to check there to...

I believe it is Romanian (factory code 21) 7.62X54R and is heavy ball (yellow tip) 182 grain.

Your brass is US manufacture WWII M2 30/06 brass. The two numbers denotes manufacture date. "DM" is Des Moines ammunition plant and "SL" is the St. Louis plant. These two ammunition plants operated only during WWII. The original ammunition had chlorate (corrosive) primers. I've reloaded this...

I have a 24" Hart 1-12" on a Remington 700. It does like the Hornady 178 OTM's. 41.0 IMR 8208 XBR / Federal GMM cases / Fed. 210 primer / C.O.L 2.815" / ES-21 / SD- 8 / AVG. 2642 FPS. Shoots under .75 MOA. In my Remington 27" 40XBKS 1-12" with the 178 Hornady OTM / 42.0 Grs. IMR 8208XBR /...

I'm still loading Small Pistol & Large Rifle primers from the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's & 1990's. They all go bang. Stored properly, they last many decades.

I first used the drop in gauges like the Wilson. They worked okay. I did some reading, I believe it was from Zediker's book, Handloading for competition. There was a section on F/L resizing using the then, new Stoney Point comparator. I bought the Stoney Point (Stoney Point was sold to Hornady...

If you order directly from Squirrel Daddy, 3- Lee pins are $10.95 W/ Free shipping. I bought a 3 pack several months ago and have decapped Norma cases with the small flash hole with no issues. https://www.squirreldaddy.com/3-Ball-end-decapping-pin-upgrade-for-Lee-90783-p/sd24-107.htm

Winchester did have a whole bunch of lots WLR & WLRM primers that were bad and were burning through the edge of the primer cup. I believe most of the bad primers were made about 8-10 years ago. There's a whole bunch of Reloaders that had their bolt faces torched from these bad primers. It's...

I would like to have a stash of M-59 ammo. It was discontinued many decades ago for the M-80 Ball ammo. Testing showed that a mild steel jacket produced an acceptable penetration of light targets suck as Trucks & Jeeps. The mild steel jackets didn't produce unacceptable wear over gilded jackets...

If you are using a RCBS die, RCBS makes tapered expanders for necking up. I use them in necking up 30/06 to 338/06, from 308 to 358 Win. and 243 Win. up to 260 Rem.They work well with one pass. I lube the inside of the necks and I do not get any buckled cases. you can use a Q tip to lube inside...

The other good thing about the Lee decapping pin is there's an after market replacement pin from Squirrel Daddy, that has tapered, hardened pins. https://www.squirreldaddy.com/Decapping-pin-s/336.htm I bought the three pack for $10.98 and got free shipping at the time. This was for the...

The brass was likely NORMA 9MM. They have a smaller, 057" flash hole than normal and the regular .078" flash hole. I ran into this issue a number of months ago when resizing a large number of 9MM range pickups.

The data you seek can be found here: https://shootersworldpowder.com/wp-content/uploads/shooters-world-manual.pdf Shooter's World reloading data PDF.