JFrank
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Spring back sounds cool but hard to measure and not much of a factor when sizing.
Well considering every piece of brass I shoot is recovered that's not true in my case at all. Were not talking about a little bit of one caliber either.Given all the time that goes into reloading rifle rounds, using brass of unknown
previous usage is hardly worth the few cents saved.
I have reloaded many "once fired" 308/7.62x51 ( and likely some "machine gun fired") brass with my plain old Lee dies. Brass was never problem.
Spring back sounds cool but hard to measure and not much of a factor when sizing.
^ ^ this ^ ^Given all the time that goes into reloading rifle rounds, using brass of unknown
previous usage is hardly worth the few cents saved.
Some people have time and no money, others have plenty of money and very little free time. Never assume your situation is anothers....^ ^ this ^ ^
The trouble I had was costing me valuable
irreplaceable time. If I can make my new
out of the box brass work with my old
regular dies and no extra effort, the problem
is definitely the brass and it gets smashed
and scrapped. No sense ( to me) spending
10-15-20 minutes trying to nurse one brass
case and maybe it will work, maybe not.
Of course, anyone can do whatever they
wish, and I'm sure there are those that
want to spend their time diddling with
stuff like that
Got a issue and I am needing a little help. I loaded up 40 rounds of 308 winchester the other day and everything seemed fine till I got to the bullet seating step.
Ok guys, please explain to me how this could be the brass fault? If you cram a brass round fully in to a sizing die that has a neck bush with a .34 diameter how does that round come out with a neck size OD greater than .343?
My social skills are not great in person and even worse on the net. Thanks for being patient. I really want to understand this stuff.
Interesting but i thought we were discussing work hardened brass having spring back ? i recently varified a bushing ID at 263 prior to sizing a case on my neck turned brass that have probably ten reloads with zero annealing and now after a couple weeks they still show .263. Perhaps more difficult to monitor on non bushing dies, I can't speak for guys that have annealing results but I'm not seeing any spring back to speak of.Super simple to measure if you are willing to sacrifice one piece of the problem brass. Measure two pieces of brass. Hillbilly anneal one piece of brass to dead soft, size it. Size a non-annealed case. Measure both and compare to the original dimensions. Bingo, springback is quantified.
Spring back sounds cool but hard to measure...
Interesting but i thought we were discussing work hardened brass having spring back ? i recently varified a bushing ID at 263 prior to sizing a case on my neck turned brass that have probably ten reloads with zero annealing and now after a couple weeks they still show .263. Perhaps more difficult to monitor on non bushing dies, I can't speak for guys that have annealing results but I'm not seeing any spring back to speak of.
Well at least on this brass, I really have no idea how annealed brass would react to the same mini test or if it would even be a thing. Might be a good winter project. ThxLooks like you’re not having any trouble measuring springback...
I would bet not as it's the best of my range pickups. Best uniformity and Winchester is the worst.What is the brand of the brass that you are having issues with? Is it Remington?