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Reloading
Hard to close bolt.
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<blockquote data-quote="Abolt" data-source="post: 1245931" data-attributes="member: 61346"><p>I'm stumped now, I loaded up 20 rounds and went to shoot them this afternoon. I shot 3 factory loads and everything went fine. When I tried to chamber my reloads it was very tough to close the bolt and very tough to open without even firing, I tried a couple different ones and same on all.</p><p></p><p>They way I have always sized my brass is to run the press ram all the way up, then thread the die down until it touches, then back off one full turn.</p><p></p><p>These were once fired brass fired by me but out of the old barrel. When I got home I used a headspace comparator and they were 2 thousandths longer than the factory loads that chambered fine, I still had a bunch of brass that I resized in this same batch so I bumped the shoulder back to just behind the factory loads. No change</p><p></p><p>I then decided to trim the brass as it was almost to max length. that's when I noticed that it didn't want to fit in the shell holder in my ribs case trimmer. I had to force it into shell holder, then I put a factory loaded shell in and it went in fine.</p><p></p><p>The only way I could make this brass chamber but with still a slight resistance was to run the ram up and screw the die down and only back it off 1/16 of a turn. </p><p></p><p>Was my old chamber extremely loose causing this brass to expand all the way down to the case head? Am I better off tossing this brass and buying new brass? Sorry for the long post and thanks for the help</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abolt, post: 1245931, member: 61346"] I'm stumped now, I loaded up 20 rounds and went to shoot them this afternoon. I shot 3 factory loads and everything went fine. When I tried to chamber my reloads it was very tough to close the bolt and very tough to open without even firing, I tried a couple different ones and same on all. They way I have always sized my brass is to run the press ram all the way up, then thread the die down until it touches, then back off one full turn. These were once fired brass fired by me but out of the old barrel. When I got home I used a headspace comparator and they were 2 thousandths longer than the factory loads that chambered fine, I still had a bunch of brass that I resized in this same batch so I bumped the shoulder back to just behind the factory loads. No change I then decided to trim the brass as it was almost to max length. that's when I noticed that it didn't want to fit in the shell holder in my ribs case trimmer. I had to force it into shell holder, then I put a factory loaded shell in and it went in fine. The only way I could make this brass chamber but with still a slight resistance was to run the ram up and screw the die down and only back it off 1/16 of a turn. Was my old chamber extremely loose causing this brass to expand all the way down to the case head? Am I better off tossing this brass and buying new brass? Sorry for the long post and thanks for the help [/QUOTE]
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