bigbuckjeff
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After FL resizing bolt is hard to close. Length is good. What might be my trouble?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Any ideas?
Thanks
What caliber? What brand of dies & press?
I realise this may be a stupid question, but are you allowing the press to 'cam over' at the top of it's stroke?After FL resizing bolt is hard to close. Length is good. What might be my trouble?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Sure , those things can matter. If the OP had stated the cal. we'd automatically know they would be resonably new manufactured dies as the cartridge is reasonably new. As for the press and dies, press first, is it a 'cheaper' brand with weak linkage that might be springing instead of transfering the motion and power as it should. The dies, are they an old, off brand, that came out of a gunshow (gunshows and pawn shops seem to be where some items go after they no longer work like they are supposed to). More information can never be a bad thing. Hope you get it sorted out BBJ.The die brand, press and cartridge doesn't matter;
After FL resizing bolt is hard to close. Length is good. What might be my trouble?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Mike......I had this EXACT same problem with my 300 ultra. Two or three firings and you had to throw the case away even with moderate loads. As I mentioned in an above post, many manufacturers dies do not size the case down sufficiently "at the web"! Measure a fired case and then a resized case and see for yourself. An unfired factory case will have about .005" clearance. Most of the dies are very near chamber spec and once the web is expanded fully to chamber size, the dies will not size it back sufficiently. The larger diameter the case (magnun) the more clearance is needed. I found with my ultra that if I didn't have at least a thou clearance when chambering, the case would likely not extract upon firing. I complained about this to my gunsmith and he confirmed what I am stating. Try it and see! My guess is that you have about 1/2 thou after you have resized when the cases are sticking......RichIm having the same trouble with my new wildcat 25 WSM using the 270 wsm necked to 25. I dont want to oversize and throw off the head space. My big problem is if i go a little farther than shell holder i start crushing the case at the shoulkder and case wall jucntion. But my real problem has been working up loads my best vel. and accuracy 1/2 moa and 3650 vel. with 100 grain sierra bt is extrtaction. Case sticks in chamber and extractor wont pull it out. Bolt lifts good and comes back but case stays in chamber and have to use a cleaning rod to remove. I know everyone is going to say load is to hot but i only have aslight plunger mark on case. I have done this hundreds of times and never had this problem from pressure. I wondering if my extractor is bad it is factory remington . Also the fired case is stiff to reclose bolt and still wont extract after being placed back in after fired. I shot this load on sat. temp. 81 degree no problem today had this problem with 72 degree temp with humidity from on and off rain showers. Im using new redding dies, and rockchucker press. Any help would be appreciated.
Mike