captain awesome
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A while back I posted how I had trouble with full length rifle brass resizing. The problem was across the board with any bottle neck cartridge I load for, bolt guns it doesnt seem to matter, I can always chamber them, but with my semi autos it was hit and miss some rounds would chamber in the same rifles, some would not, some rifles it was an issue, some it wasn't. My solution after exhausting several other ideas, though it bothered me to do, was to take a couple thousandths of an inch off the bottom off my resizing dies which allowed me to bottom them out on the presses a little more. It fixed the clambering issue, but again I didnt like that solution and thought it strange that my problems would not be more widespread without me doing something wrong. So I am revisiting the issue.
Here is what I know;
Shell plates were all verified to be within spec. I was surprised that "spec" varied as much as it did. I thought it would all be within 1/1000 of an inch...its not but they are within spec.
The dies were bottomed out to the point of the presses camming over hard, and I still had problems.
Brass, particularly the 308 and 556 was mostly military, but mixed headstamped. Possibly fired through machine guns.
308 brass especially was very difficult to resize.
I lubed brass with hornady oneshot case lube (aerosol).
I noticed that after the press had cammed over when a case was present in the die, I could slip a piece of paper between the edge of the die and shellholder. Normal??
Any thoughts? I am wondering if the one shot just doesnt work well enough, or maybe I need to use more of it? I never get stuck cases but since it is so difficult I wonder. I like the one shot because its quick and easy and powder doesnt stick to it, but it's not cheap stuff. What do you do for high volume rifle reloading? I like using my case feeders and progressive presses....
Here is what I know;
Shell plates were all verified to be within spec. I was surprised that "spec" varied as much as it did. I thought it would all be within 1/1000 of an inch...its not but they are within spec.
The dies were bottomed out to the point of the presses camming over hard, and I still had problems.
Brass, particularly the 308 and 556 was mostly military, but mixed headstamped. Possibly fired through machine guns.
308 brass especially was very difficult to resize.
I lubed brass with hornady oneshot case lube (aerosol).
I noticed that after the press had cammed over when a case was present in the die, I could slip a piece of paper between the edge of the die and shellholder. Normal??
Any thoughts? I am wondering if the one shot just doesnt work well enough, or maybe I need to use more of it? I never get stuck cases but since it is so difficult I wonder. I like the one shot because its quick and easy and powder doesnt stick to it, but it's not cheap stuff. What do you do for high volume rifle reloading? I like using my case feeders and progressive presses....