The "What Have You Reloaded Today" thread
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Prepped around 300 243 Win brass. Mostly Dominion, some Rem. Dominion (not sure who the actual manufacturer was) is much better brass than the Rem. Out of 186 I lost 11 to split necks (very common in 243 brass, annealing helps with that though). Out of 75 Rem I got 13 split necks. Interesting. That Dominion brass is a fair bit heavier as well. Anyway, got them all done (had to fiddle around with a full length sizer and a small body die to get them to fit the chamber of the rifle I wanted them for) and now the Rems have been resized to 22-243 Middlestead cases. - dan
I found a Redding 6.5 Swede small body die, so I'm going to try that first. If that doesn't bring it down enough, I will try the 308 one. If that fails, I'll start trimming the shell holder and/or the die to allow the case to go a little further into the die. - dan
That's a beauty alright. - dan
I ended up using your idea. Once through the 6.5x55 body die, then a few pushes into the 308 small body die. don't want to push it all the way in (with Imperial Sizing wax you can do that), but three pushes until you feel it tighten up works. Swages what looks like a small belt at the bottom of the brass. Once more through the 6.5 body die to iron that out. Some are still a little tight, but they will all chamber in the Winchester now. I'll fireform them next and get some practice in at the same time. Whatever these were originally fired in the chamber must have been generous. Maybe a Ljungman, had a buddy with one years back and the brass came out way over sized. - dan
Shoots the 185's really well with the sling'n'irons! The extractor finally failed today- what do you expect for a rifle over 60 years old and thousands upon thousands of rounds
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They will do that. Why I have a couple spares, generally. Ejectors too. - danShoots the 185's really well with the sling'n'irons! The extractor finally failed today- what do you expect for a rifle over 60 years old and thousands upon thousands of rounds
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Started loading 222. Had some primed brass I bought earlier. The seating die looked like it was crimping the brass so switched to another die to see if it worked better. Did 3 before I realized I wasnt putting in the powder.. too focused on the seating lol. Did load and shoot 8. Surprised at the different poi from the factory rounds I zeroed the scope with. Started to prime some more cases and realized I need a shell holder for the hand primer
Borrowed a chrono, about 2950+ fps on the high end. No hard bolt lifts or stamps. My shoulder sore now lol.
Usually the firing pin
My Hornady priming tool does the same; the seater pin has a little protuberance in the center (lathe machining artifact) that does a little indent in the center of all my primers. Every time I use it , I tell myself that I should sand or grind it but after priming a couple of hundreds brass, I'm too lazy and postpone it.
