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Custom sizing dies?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jud96" data-source="post: 2825505" data-attributes="member: 69478"><p>The brass has been hardened or has expanded so much at the base it no longer springs back, when you go to open the bolt the bolt lift can be harder and when you hit the extraction cam on the rear of the action with the bolt handle it takes more force to open and the bolt "clicks" when it's fully opened. This is where the term "clickers" comes from. The click is from the two camming surfaces on the bolt and action matching up and taking greater force than what's normal to cam the bolt open.</p><p></p><p>This can happen from an overpressured round where the case head over expands and doesn't spring back enough, it can be from brass that has been shot a lot and the case head is very work hardened, and it can be from insufficient sizing of the brass near the base caused by neck sizing only or from a FL die that doesn't size the brass down enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jud96, post: 2825505, member: 69478"] The brass has been hardened or has expanded so much at the base it no longer springs back, when you go to open the bolt the bolt lift can be harder and when you hit the extraction cam on the rear of the action with the bolt handle it takes more force to open and the bolt "clicks" when it's fully opened. This is where the term "clickers" comes from. The click is from the two camming surfaces on the bolt and action matching up and taking greater force than what's normal to cam the bolt open. This can happen from an overpressured round where the case head over expands and doesn't spring back enough, it can be from brass that has been shot a lot and the case head is very work hardened, and it can be from insufficient sizing of the brass near the base caused by neck sizing only or from a FL die that doesn't size the brass down enough. [/QUOTE]
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