Sticky Lapua brass

[rwdwrt]

Has anyone ever run across 308 Lapua Brass being difficult to slip into the shell holder when it is brand new, never fired? I bought a box of 100 from Cabelas and was resizing them to make every thing uniform, a few needed triming, but when putting them into the shell holder for resizing, some where difficult to get in. I always heard good things about the Lapua brass

 

[dmills]

I am working my way through a new batch (100) Lapua and am having no problems. These were not from Cabelas though, but that should make no difference.

 

[Zak Smith]

I've had this happen with certain shell holders and Lapua 338LM brass. I think the issue was that the rim was thicker than normal and it was catching on particularly tight shell holders (or those with burrs).