bluetopper
Member
Took my brand new model 700, 22-250 Varmint 26" barrel out today for the first time. Bolt was very stiff trying to close on all rounds, about 1 out of 10, the bolt wouldn't close at all. All reloads, all cases were trimmed to1.90" length. Took some unprimed empty brass that was prepped and ready to load and tried those, same thing. Occasionally the bolt wouldn't lock up on one. Bolt stiff on all of them. The ones that the bolt wouldn't close I ran through my RCBS sizer die again and tried them, bolt still wouldn't close.....even on the unprimed empty brass. No, I don't have any factory ammo to try. Should I buy a small base sizer die?