Reloading 7mm rem
- Thread starter Cbprov
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Leatherstocking
CGN Regular
- Location
- BC Rockies
You can size down to the shell holder.
Better to size to suit your chamber. Adjust the die down in small increments until cases just fit your chamber.
Better to size to suit your chamber. Adjust the die down in small increments until cases just fit your chamber.
I set my magnums to headspace on the shoulder and not the belt. I smoke the cases and resize till the die just touches the shoulder then try it in the gun to see if it chambers easy, if not I turn the die down a tiny bit till it does. Some people like to feel a slight resistance when chambering a round but in my hunting rifles I like a slick chambering with no discernible resistance.
Leatherstocking
CGN Regular
- Location
- BC Rockies
Hunter nailed it!
Leatherstocking
CGN Regular
- Location
- BC Rockies
Likely would need to try ammo in both rifles.
Like most belted cases they respond best when you size to just barely bump the shoulder like beltless cases but you gen into trouble when the base of the case has expanded to where chambering becomes difficult, what to do !?
Normal reloading practise dictates that you should lower you sizing die to reduce the case dimensions further thus allowing easier chambering of coarse this also creates more headspace so your methods will be a compromise in order to achieve some harmony.
The ideal method would be a die that only sizes the base and one for the rest of the case of coarse this combination does not exist,.....kinda! There is a company that makes a resizing die for the base (whose name escapes me) of belted cartridges and this with a combination of either a neck, body die, collet die or full length die would make a great combo for precise reloading of belted cases. Unless you are full length resizing these difficulties will always be present in belted cases, depends on the chamber dimensions, location of belt to shoulder and diameter of fired case at base with those of the reloading dies.
Hope this helps.
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Normal reloading practise dictates that you should lower you sizing die to reduce the case dimensions further thus allowing easier chambering of coarse this also creates more headspace so your methods will be a compromise in order to achieve some harmony.
The ideal method would be a die that only sizes the base and one for the rest of the case of coarse this combination does not exist,.....kinda! There is a company that makes a resizing die for the base (whose name escapes me) of belted cartridges and this with a combination of either a neck, body die, collet die or full length die would make a great combo for precise reloading of belted cases. Unless you are full length resizing these difficulties will always be present in belted cases, depends on the chamber dimensions, location of belt to shoulder and diameter of fired case at base with those of the reloading dies.
Hope this helps.
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- Location
- Trois-Rivieres, Quebec
Leatherstocking
CGN Regular
- Location
- BC Rockies
I have cases fired 5 times. Resized with normal dies. Lee full sizing die and Lee collet neck sizing die. Never had a problem with the cartridge case expanding near the head. I don’t shoot extra hot loads,though.
