New Hornady brass. Resize? Yes or no.

Brianma65 said:
that sounds easy enough. But what about when it's once fired out of my rifle. ( that's what I was getting at with , by unscrewing the die a turn and a half).
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I wastalking about factory virgin brass.
If you're wanting to know how to partial full length re size brass, that's a far longer toutorial.

Or you could do a google search.
 
Most new bulk brass I have bought were less than perfect in the case mouths. Some are out of round, a lot out of round and many have a slight lip turned in on the mouth. I always just bump the first little bit of the neck in a backed out FL die and then chamfer the inside slightly. Not dong this in the past has cost me some collapsed cases when seating flat based bullets without removing the little burr or lip inside the case mouth of new brass.
 
Brianma65 said:
:) that's exactly what I'm planning to do. I'm just trying to eliminate the trimming and chamfering and deburring , every time.....lol on the once fired that is. So a new neck sizer for the used stuff...
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Depending on how hot your loads are, you will be surprised how long you can go without trimming. My amax load is pretty mild and my brass is barely stretching.
 
laker415 said:
Depending on how hot your loads are, you will be surprised how long you can go without trimming. My amax load is pretty mild and my brass is barely stretching.
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I'm doing some test loads for a new 308 I'm waiting on. I've got 75 rnds made so far , nosler and SST. I'm waiting on gmax and amax projectiles. So I really have no idea what the gun will choose. I just find it a PITA to have to trim,chamfer and debur 5 or 6 hundred rifle cases every month.:) (.223/.308).
 
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If you don't take the dents out of the necks, and you don't chamfer new brass, it's common for shavings to be scraped off of the bullets as you seat them. Nicks or scrapes at the base of a bullet can effect accuracy.
 
Brianma65 said:
I'm doing some test loads for a new 308 I'm waiting on. I've got 75 rnds made so far , nosler and SST. I'm waiting on gmax and amax projectiles. So I really have no idea what the gun will choose. I just find it a PITA to have to trim,chamfer and debur 5 or 6 hundred rifle cases every month.:) (.223/.308).
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Sounds like you got a lot of testing to do. I didn't go crazy with tonnes of different rounds. I have a 178 amax load, 168 smk load and a 175 nosler custom competition load.
 
laker415 said:
Sounds like you got a lot of testing to do. I didn't go crazy with tonnes of different rounds. I have a 178 amax load, 168 smk load and a 175 nosler custom competition load.
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As its all new to me , I thought I had to test every thing. I have 5 or 6 diff brands of bullits and diff weights. The 75 rnds are only with CFE 223. I have 4064,benchmark and h1000 , to try yet. The nosler were just something I had kicking around. I'm thinking of sticking with the Hornady gmax and a fast burning powder.
 
Brianma65 said:
None, it's for my buddies .270. Listed it by mistake. I'll probably just stick to the CFE, I'll use up the lb of benchmark and 4064 just to try them.
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Gotcha. I exclusively use 4064 and 4895 for my 308. Happy enough that I don't want to try other powders. I am sure varget would be great but I have 16 lbs of 4064 so I won't fix what ain't broke. When henry opens up I will add a keg of 4895
 
stubblejumper said:
I would consider it unusual to have to trim new brass.
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I didn't trim any brass off, just barely touched them against the trimmer. Then I cleaned them up with the chamfer/ deburer tool. I had 25 pcs of once fired brass that o also trimmed to same length . Oh , there was 2 pcs of new Hornady brass that was a touch longer than than the others.
 
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