New reloader here,
Have resized a bunch of 308win brass on my RC single stage press, no issues. Went shooting today with my 223 and brought the brass home and decided to try my new 223 RCBS die. First 50 rounds zero issues other than some minor linear scratches at the bottom of the case which I assume was from tumbler dust on the cases.
The first 6 or so cases from the second batch went with no problem, then the 7th case the rim tore off. I was happy I got the stuck case remover as a "just in case" item when I got the press. I could not get the deprimer pin and neck sizer ball out, so I went ahead and carefully drilled and tapped the case with the depriming pin as far out as I could get it, and popped the case out of the die.
Cleaned the die with rem-oil thoroughly. and re-setup the die. The very next case tore the rim off and I had to repeat the case extraction. I then realized I hadn't lubed the second set of cases i was resizing. went ahead and lubed them up as well as lubed the inside of the die after cleaning it. Resizsed the other ~30 cases without a problem.
I have two questions:
1) Are the cases I sized before they were lubed properly possibly dangerous to use? I see no evidence of damage, but could the rim have a problem since the last 2 cases that were not lubed tore the rim off?
2) How the heck do you get the depriming pin and neck resizer out of the die before tapping the case if you get a stuck case? It didn't seem to cause any issues drilling and tapping with it in, but I would feel better without the chance of damaging the depriming pin.
Thanks for any input,
madd0c
Have resized a bunch of 308win brass on my RC single stage press, no issues. Went shooting today with my 223 and brought the brass home and decided to try my new 223 RCBS die. First 50 rounds zero issues other than some minor linear scratches at the bottom of the case which I assume was from tumbler dust on the cases.
The first 6 or so cases from the second batch went with no problem, then the 7th case the rim tore off. I was happy I got the stuck case remover as a "just in case" item when I got the press. I could not get the deprimer pin and neck sizer ball out, so I went ahead and carefully drilled and tapped the case with the depriming pin as far out as I could get it, and popped the case out of the die.
Cleaned the die with rem-oil thoroughly. and re-setup the die. The very next case tore the rim off and I had to repeat the case extraction. I then realized I hadn't lubed the second set of cases i was resizing. went ahead and lubed them up as well as lubed the inside of the die after cleaning it. Resizsed the other ~30 cases without a problem.
I have two questions:
1) Are the cases I sized before they were lubed properly possibly dangerous to use? I see no evidence of damage, but could the rim have a problem since the last 2 cases that were not lubed tore the rim off?
2) How the heck do you get the depriming pin and neck resizer out of the die before tapping the case if you get a stuck case? It didn't seem to cause any issues drilling and tapping with it in, but I would feel better without the chance of damaging the depriming pin.
Thanks for any input,
madd0c