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Crimp .223?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike6158" data-source="post: 444399" data-attributes="member: 1039"><p>I trim as needed. That's a good point on case length affecting crimp. I did a random sample of all of the brass (all fired in the bolt rifle btw) and the COL's were pretty consistent and short enough that I didn't need to trim. I had trimmed them prior to reloading the last batch. I think you nailed the reason that they felt funny though. </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't remember if the crimp die came with my Dillon dies or I added it. All I know is that if I had loaded these for the AR I would have had setback problems. I "normally" keep my AR loads separate from my bolt rifle loads. However, I never thought about the fact that I was using range brass. I've got some new brass ordered and I'll use it for the bolt gun exclusively.</p><p></p><p>I've got an AR with a Shilen Match barrel that has chambering issues. The same round will load right up and fire in my other AR's. I may need to check into the small base die. I FL size them, trim to length, etc, but they won't reliably chamber in one of the AR's. The bolt doesn't quite close.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>I used a neck sizing die (Forster) and adjusted it so that I set the shoulder back .002". That's my standard setup for FL or NS.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>There's definitely an issue with the range brass. I threw one case away when I could push the bullet into the case by hand. Now that I've had some time to think about it, I think my "once fired" brass is "once fired maybe" (like most range brass) and I need to sort it. Ugh... 2,000 rounds of brass to sort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike6158, post: 444399, member: 1039"] I trim as needed. That's a good point on case length affecting crimp. I did a random sample of all of the brass (all fired in the bolt rifle btw) and the COL's were pretty consistent and short enough that I didn't need to trim. I had trimmed them prior to reloading the last batch. I think you nailed the reason that they felt funny though. I don't remember if the crimp die came with my Dillon dies or I added it. All I know is that if I had loaded these for the AR I would have had setback problems. I "normally" keep my AR loads separate from my bolt rifle loads. However, I never thought about the fact that I was using range brass. I've got some new brass ordered and I'll use it for the bolt gun exclusively. I've got an AR with a Shilen Match barrel that has chambering issues. The same round will load right up and fire in my other AR's. I may need to check into the small base die. I FL size them, trim to length, etc, but they won't reliably chamber in one of the AR's. The bolt doesn't quite close. I used a neck sizing die (Forster) and adjusted it so that I set the shoulder back .002". That's my standard setup for FL or NS. There's definitely an issue with the range brass. I threw one case away when I could push the bullet into the case by hand. Now that I've had some time to think about it, I think my "once fired" brass is "once fired maybe" (like most range brass) and I need to sort it. Ugh... 2,000 rounds of brass to sort. [/QUOTE]
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