jr_roosa
Member
I'm trying to get my friend into reloading on my bench so we tried to do some .30-06. I resized a few last night and checked one or two to see if they were over length and make sure my dies are in good shape. I don't have a .30-06, but the dies and came with my gear from my dad. Everything looked good.
So we resized this morning, and about 75% of the cases were over length (I happend to pick 2 that were fine last night). No big deal, but I don't have a case trimmer.
We decided to resize enough to get a dozen or so within spec and planned to trim the others at a later date. No problem.
Unfortunately almost all the good cases were military surplus that I thought had been reloaded once. Two stuck primers later and we discovered that the crimps were still there, and guess what...I don't have a crimp removal tool.
Gotta buy some new toys.
Unfortunately my friend looked like he had about enough of reloading. We'll see if we can get him hooked again after we get the cases trimmed and the primer pockets opened up.
-J.
So we resized this morning, and about 75% of the cases were over length (I happend to pick 2 that were fine last night). No big deal, but I don't have a case trimmer.
We decided to resize enough to get a dozen or so within spec and planned to trim the others at a later date. No problem.
Unfortunately almost all the good cases were military surplus that I thought had been reloaded once. Two stuck primers later and we discovered that the crimps were still there, and guess what...I don't have a crimp removal tool.
Gotta buy some new toys.
Unfortunately my friend looked like he had about enough of reloading. We'll see if we can get him hooked again after we get the cases trimmed and the primer pockets opened up.
-J.