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Case head separation due to FL resizing brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1733185" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Belted mags, gotta love em to hate em properly. They come with their own unique problems because of the belt. </p><p></p><p>My strategy is simple, don't let the belt screw me up. So don't bump shoulders unless you have to to get the bolt to close. That sets you up so it headspaces on the shoulder instead of the belt. Then, don't full length size unless you have to. You'll get better brass life from not working the brass so hard, especially with regard to CHS. </p><p></p><p>For me this means setting the rifle up for zero headspace to begin using a pack of new brass as a gauge instead of a proper go gauge. This makes me toss about 10% of a lot of new brass that will not fit because of belt thickness variations. Then neck sizing only as long as I can rounds things out. Pushing a belted magnum is just going to hurt brass life, period. Pressures climb, brass flows. That's how that bakes out. If you want brass life, step 1 is to stop pushing things so hard. Step 2 is stop working the brass so hard. Do the things you need to do and no more things than that when reloading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1733185, member: 96226"] Belted mags, gotta love em to hate em properly. They come with their own unique problems because of the belt. My strategy is simple, don't let the belt screw me up. So don't bump shoulders unless you have to to get the bolt to close. That sets you up so it headspaces on the shoulder instead of the belt. Then, don't full length size unless you have to. You'll get better brass life from not working the brass so hard, especially with regard to CHS. For me this means setting the rifle up for zero headspace to begin using a pack of new brass as a gauge instead of a proper go gauge. This makes me toss about 10% of a lot of new brass that will not fit because of belt thickness variations. Then neck sizing only as long as I can rounds things out. Pushing a belted magnum is just going to hurt brass life, period. Pressures climb, brass flows. That's how that bakes out. If you want brass life, step 1 is to stop pushing things so hard. Step 2 is stop working the brass so hard. Do the things you need to do and no more things than that when reloading. [/QUOTE]
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