capreppy
Member
A little background:
I Size / Decap / Prime in batches to 100 to 500. I am still a noobie reloader and this gives me the opportunity to check each piece of brass several times over as well as check the primers for any high or misplaced primers.
After I batch Size / Decap / Prime, then I'll complete the ammo either at that sitting or another (usually within a couple of days).
I spent several hours Sizing / Decapping / Priming 1500 R-P .45ACP Brass. All went well. No issues whatsoever.
I wanted to add the Wincester brass I have to the reloading rotation so I grabbed my tub of Winchester Brass. This brass is sparkly clean. This is one time fired (mostly by me (WWB), but did buy some from a fellow boardmember who also shot WWB) and to my knowledge, has not been previously reloaded (at least not by me). It went several hours in a tumbler of Walnut & then 2 hours in Corn Cob w/Flitz. I use gloves (and safety goggles) when I do any reloading work so there is no body oil or other contaminants.
Downstroke (size / decap) wasn't too bad, but it required more force than the R-P brass. The upstroke was terrible. I almost had to wrestle the piece of brass free from the sizer. I had to do this for all 500 pieces of Winchester brass. I did run several R-P brass afterwords and had NO issues with the down or up stroke. I did clean the sizer prior to doing the Winchester brass and verified the decapper was still in good shape. Did think about shell plate alignment, but R-P brass has no issues so likely issue is specific to Win brass
Most of the Winchester brass comes from WWB. When I shot them, they had a fair amount of recoil (high pressure?). The primer was pretty flattened (been told this is a sign of a high pressure round).
My theory and would love opinions / thoughts on it is that these rounds were higher pressure than the R-P brass and therefore expanded more than the R-P brass. Because of the expansion more force was necessary during sizing.
Am I off base? What else could cause this?
I Size / Decap / Prime in batches to 100 to 500. I am still a noobie reloader and this gives me the opportunity to check each piece of brass several times over as well as check the primers for any high or misplaced primers.
After I batch Size / Decap / Prime, then I'll complete the ammo either at that sitting or another (usually within a couple of days).
I spent several hours Sizing / Decapping / Priming 1500 R-P .45ACP Brass. All went well. No issues whatsoever.
I wanted to add the Wincester brass I have to the reloading rotation so I grabbed my tub of Winchester Brass. This brass is sparkly clean. This is one time fired (mostly by me (WWB), but did buy some from a fellow boardmember who also shot WWB) and to my knowledge, has not been previously reloaded (at least not by me). It went several hours in a tumbler of Walnut & then 2 hours in Corn Cob w/Flitz. I use gloves (and safety goggles) when I do any reloading work so there is no body oil or other contaminants.
Downstroke (size / decap) wasn't too bad, but it required more force than the R-P brass. The upstroke was terrible. I almost had to wrestle the piece of brass free from the sizer. I had to do this for all 500 pieces of Winchester brass. I did run several R-P brass afterwords and had NO issues with the down or up stroke. I did clean the sizer prior to doing the Winchester brass and verified the decapper was still in good shape. Did think about shell plate alignment, but R-P brass has no issues so likely issue is specific to Win brass
Most of the Winchester brass comes from WWB. When I shot them, they had a fair amount of recoil (high pressure?). The primer was pretty flattened (been told this is a sign of a high pressure round).
My theory and would love opinions / thoughts on it is that these rounds were higher pressure than the R-P brass and therefore expanded more than the R-P brass. Because of the expansion more force was necessary during sizing.
Am I off base? What else could cause this?
