The .338 brass came with the Winchester M70 Super grade rifle my son bought couple of years age. They have been reloaded 7 times.
If used for hunting, they might have got some gouge from going in and out of the rifle numberous times. I don't have the brass here at my place, but I will ask my...
I have the #5 shell plate and it is also brand new with no marks or damages.
Since the .338 win mag and .375 H&H mag has the same magnum case, with belt and everything, I am surprised that the ejecting worked flawlessly with the .375 cases but not with the 338 cases. Both were Remingtons.
The press is brand new.
I tried running a bunch of 1 times reloaded .375 H&H mag. cartridges through the press without any dies in it, just to check if the ejecting worked on these. The strange thing is that they ejected perfect.
This was Remington cases just as the .338 win.mag was, so now I...
The trouble caliber is .338 win.mag. with .270 win the press ejects perfectly.
The spring slips nicely underneat the shell right before the press reaches top position in station 5, so thats not the problem. I still plan on doing the mod you describe to reduce the wear on the spring.
In my case...
I got my new Hornady LNL AP press some days ago. I had to fix some smaller issues and it now seem to work fine when reloading 270 win.
But I do have major problem with reloading .338 win.mag. The press won't eject the finished cartridge because it get stucked between the ejector nub on the sub...
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