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Worked will with my 22-250 and 204
Tight chambering reloads
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Worked will with my 22-250 and 204
I like to buy large quantities once once fired military brass and prep it for use in competition.
At first blush, a guy might assume this is a stupid thing to do because military brass in not known for consistency... and that would be a short sighted assumption... But I wont explain why because its off topic...
The point is that once fired military brass may have been fired in just about any rifle and all variations of chamber dimensions and some can be stretched to much larger than expected sizes.
I originally ran all the brass through a regular FL sizing die, but found that much of it would not chamber, just as the op has mentioned.
The solution was to run the brass though a second FL resizing process using a small base die.
I could not go directly from the brass as received to the small base die because it was too aggressive in a single step and the cases got jammed in the SB die. So I had to run it through both the regular die first and then the small base die.
Once I did that, all chambering problems were gone.
So the moral of the story is that when you get questionable brass like the Op did, just run it through a small base die for the first time. After that, you should be fine running it through a regular die once you fire it in your own rifle.
I assume there are small base dies available for 22-250, but I have never looked into it.
At first blush, a guy might assume this is a stupid thing to do because military brass in not known for consistency... and that would be a short sighted assumption... But I wont explain why because its off topic...
The point is that once fired military brass may have been fired in just about any rifle and all variations of chamber dimensions and some can be stretched to much larger than expected sizes.
I originally ran all the brass through a regular FL sizing die, but found that much of it would not chamber, just as the op has mentioned.
The solution was to run the brass though a second FL resizing process using a small base die.
I could not go directly from the brass as received to the small base die because it was too aggressive in a single step and the cases got jammed in the SB die. So I had to run it through both the regular die first and then the small base die.
Once I did that, all chambering problems were gone.
So the moral of the story is that when you get questionable brass like the Op did, just run it through a small base die for the first time. After that, you should be fine running it through a regular die once you fire it in your own rifle.
I assume there are small base dies available for 22-250, but I have never looked into it.
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