Did you lube the case neck internally before you resized? If the sizing button drags when coming out of the case on the upstroke, it can slightly pull the shoulder forward. Resizing with a small bit of lube inside the neck will assist. You can usually tell if you get a screeching sound when the sizing button comes out. Trying each case in the rifle after sizing, before powder and bullet is a good suggestion. I use one of the RCBS nylon bristle brushes, wipe some lube from my pad on that and shove it in each case before resizing. Thats why some copanies suggest dry lube, neck dipped in dry lube before sizing. RJS.
What the #@!!* went wrong?
- Thread starter deerslayer
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I'd also suspect the sizing die not being adjusted all the way down. I've done the same thing with 308 loads - they looked fine, but wouldn't chamber smoothly.
If you check the case width near the bottom you might find it's too wide, that would be a sign of the sizing die not adjusted down far enough.
If you check the case width near the bottom you might find it's too wide, that would be a sign of the sizing die not adjusted down far enough.
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
roberti11 said:
roberti11 -
Was that a pocket reamer or a pocket uniformer? The reamer is to remove the crimp from military brass, where as the uniformer makes all the pockets the same depth a makes them flat so the primer seats evenly.
I was having grief one time with the expander ball not wanting to pull out of my cases with the dry lube I was using. I tried putting a smaller dia expander ball on the rod to hold the decapper in and then just use a boat tail bullet to seat in the case.
Once I got to go shooting, alot of the cases would not chamber. I found the bullets were hard to seat since they weren't opened up with the expander. The pressure it took to seat the expand the neck and seat the bullet at the same time actually caused the shoulder of the case to swell .010".
A little lesson for me not to try cutting a corner.
I haven't had alot of grief with my Lee dies but they seem to get slagged quite often. Have another set of dies you can try?
After that, like others mentioned, die set up, cases trimmed, compressed load of powder.......
Let us know what you find!
Noel
Once I got to go shooting, alot of the cases would not chamber. I found the bullets were hard to seat since they weren't opened up with the expander. The pressure it took to seat the expand the neck and seat the bullet at the same time actually caused the shoulder of the case to swell .010".
A little lesson for me not to try cutting a corner.
I haven't had alot of grief with my Lee dies but they seem to get slagged quite often. Have another set of dies you can try?
After that, like others mentioned, die set up, cases trimmed, compressed load of powder.......
Let us know what you find!
Noel
I ,ll try to answer everones questions , cases were lubed , inside neck was lubed ,shoulder was not lubed , cases were fired in this rifle twice before , cases trimed , primer pockets cleaned , necks chamfered inside and out , used same primers as always , same load as before , same bullet , seating depth was the same for all 25 rounds, same crimp , 95 gr nosler ballistic silvertip , 42 gr imr4831 ,rem primer ,some of the tight fitting rounds have circular marks 1/2in below shoulder after I removed the round from the rifle. Either the case bulged when bing crimped or cases not sized.I,ll reload some rounds and see if they work.
- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
I have had some instances wheere the csses would not resize in a lee die because the die body was not the right diameter.deerslayer said:
Put theem in a RCBS and things were okayu.
I sent the die back and Lee replaced it for free.
If you have loaded some max loads, this may be the case.
I would cheeck the die setting , also, as was mentioned.
Cat
deerslayer said:
I will put my money on the crimp was a bit too much and made the case swell behind the shoulder.
Try another set up, do one case exactly the way you did this first batch and crimp the same.
Now do another, but do not crimp the case neck and see if there is a difference.
Hopefully I haven't missed reading you already tried this.
Noel
todbartell says "You wont kill a buck sitting in your computer chair watching your #### get smaller."
Get out and HUNT!
I'd love to reply to this post,and its dark as ell here,and its raining,and blowing,but By God at the off chance he's right I think I'm gonna load up the gun and run through the bush shootin...When your my age the whole #### gettin smaller thing scares the crap outta me
Get out and HUNT!
I'd love to reply to this post,and its dark as ell here,and its raining,and blowing,but By God at the off chance he's right I think I'm gonna load up the gun and run through the bush shootin...When your my age the whole #### gettin smaller thing scares the crap outta me
deerslayer said:
Did I read right? You crimped the bullets with the crimper.............
If so that could also be the issue. I have screwed rounds up by crimping whenI first started reloading. Personally, I would throw that thing away.
