jeffforkliftguy
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Hello all, i have been reading a handful of posts that bring up Small base dies and i see that there are alot of yes's and no's. My intent is NOT to debate anyones opinion just to share my personal experience. Here it is...
I started reloading 223 for my ar15. All went well for over a year. Then i started reloading for my friends ar15. All went well for a few weeks. Then i reloaded more for him and both of us went to the range. I shot all day with zero issues. He fired a couple rounds then.."click". Charging handle stuck, live round chambered, cant split recievers. After much banging on the forward assist, we were able to get the round far enough forward to split the recievers. We had to slam the charging handle on a piece of wood to finally get it to pull back and eject the.round. figured i had done something wrong when reloading.that one. Back to shooting....two rounds later, click again. Now, im shooting the same reloads with no issues in my ar. Same process to get the round out. I put both of those rounds in MY ar and bot fired fine. Guess theres an issues with his rifle. Now, fast forward a few months...at the range and click...now my rifle is doing it. And,.uh oh, my ar10 is doing it too. This.cant be a gun issue, its gotta be an ammo issue. After doing.some research i found when ammo is fired from different rifles, then reloaded with FL dies, they may have issues chambering in a rifle that it wasnt originally fired from. Hmmmm...when it started happening.to MY rifles i thought back and.realized...that round of ammo was brass i picked up at the range from someone else. It was recommended to me to buy a SB die and try again. I did, and two years later and 1000's of rounds of all kinds of brass later....ZERO issues. Zero issues in ANYONES ar's. The SB die takes the brass back down to a factory like spec. The FL die does not. Theres a reason an SBdie was created and recommended for use with ammo used in AR's. Wish i would have learned that reason before i beatup my charging.handles and stressed about all the ammo that may or may not have worked properly when i went to the range.
Again, just my experience and just my opinion but SB dies are a must when reloading for AR's.
Thanx for reading!
I started reloading 223 for my ar15. All went well for over a year. Then i started reloading for my friends ar15. All went well for a few weeks. Then i reloaded more for him and both of us went to the range. I shot all day with zero issues. He fired a couple rounds then.."click". Charging handle stuck, live round chambered, cant split recievers. After much banging on the forward assist, we were able to get the round far enough forward to split the recievers. We had to slam the charging handle on a piece of wood to finally get it to pull back and eject the.round. figured i had done something wrong when reloading.that one. Back to shooting....two rounds later, click again. Now, im shooting the same reloads with no issues in my ar. Same process to get the round out. I put both of those rounds in MY ar and bot fired fine. Guess theres an issues with his rifle. Now, fast forward a few months...at the range and click...now my rifle is doing it. And,.uh oh, my ar10 is doing it too. This.cant be a gun issue, its gotta be an ammo issue. After doing.some research i found when ammo is fired from different rifles, then reloaded with FL dies, they may have issues chambering in a rifle that it wasnt originally fired from. Hmmmm...when it started happening.to MY rifles i thought back and.realized...that round of ammo was brass i picked up at the range from someone else. It was recommended to me to buy a SB die and try again. I did, and two years later and 1000's of rounds of all kinds of brass later....ZERO issues. Zero issues in ANYONES ar's. The SB die takes the brass back down to a factory like spec. The FL die does not. Theres a reason an SBdie was created and recommended for use with ammo used in AR's. Wish i would have learned that reason before i beatup my charging.handles and stressed about all the ammo that may or may not have worked properly when i went to the range.
Again, just my experience and just my opinion but SB dies are a must when reloading for AR's.
Thanx for reading!