I didn't need small base dies for the first 15 years I reloaded, until I ran across that 8mm I couldn't size correctly with a full length sizer.
The point I was trying to make, is if you ARE sizing it correctly with a full length sizer and even push it (to the point the die is making hard contact with the shell holder and you can't get another .00001 out of it) and it STILL isn't chambering.... it's time for a small base die. That's going to be the only way to get the web back in spec.
With the enormous amount of 1919's that have hit the market over the last few years, with so many people bolting cranks on them and blasting away until they go broke, it is just a matter of time before that brass hits the market.
When it does, if they didn't know how to set up their 1919 properly, you're going to NEED a small base sizer for 30-06 once fired you buy off the internet. If those aren't headspaced properly, every case is going to have expansion around the web.
Previously (before a few years ago when 1919's started selling like crazy) the ONLY brass you'd ever really run across were CMP once-fired out of Garands and '03's.
So, I am assuming he was sizing properly with is full length sizer (it's tough to mess THAT up), and since his "new" brass wasn't working, I offered the one piece of advice that I knew would entirely, irrevocably fix the issue.
The point I was trying to make, is if you ARE sizing it correctly with a full length sizer and even push it (to the point the die is making hard contact with the shell holder and you can't get another .00001 out of it) and it STILL isn't chambering.... it's time for a small base die. That's going to be the only way to get the web back in spec.
With the enormous amount of 1919's that have hit the market over the last few years, with so many people bolting cranks on them and blasting away until they go broke, it is just a matter of time before that brass hits the market.
When it does, if they didn't know how to set up their 1919 properly, you're going to NEED a small base sizer for 30-06 once fired you buy off the internet. If those aren't headspaced properly, every case is going to have expansion around the web.
Previously (before a few years ago when 1919's started selling like crazy) the ONLY brass you'd ever really run across were CMP once-fired out of Garands and '03's.
So, I am assuming he was sizing properly with is full length sizer (it's tough to mess THAT up), and since his "new" brass wasn't working, I offered the one piece of advice that I knew would entirely, irrevocably fix the issue.
