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Head space issues!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 386741" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Take a new case, never fired and put strips of scotch tape on the back, trimming the edges of and see how many pieces it takes till your bolt gets tight. New brass has roughly .002 head space in a rifle that is set to zero head space on a 270WSM go gauge. You can measure the length of the brass as you add tape to get an idea of what your head space is and the difference between the three.</p><p>I just went thought a head spacing thing on my rifle, fortunately it's a Savage and I just reset it my self. </p><p>If your dimpling, do you have lube up on it. When I was having to crush mine down if I had any lube on the shoulder it would dimple so I lube the body and dry lubed the neck.</p><p>If your running max load and your moving that kinda brass really watch the case web thickness cause it will fail after .010 of thinning.</p><p>It's kinda funny but after I reset my head spacing to .002 on a go gauge I then set my die (Redding) to the gauge ,I then had to turn it in just a touch for spring back and the die is set to where the shell holder and the die meet and the handle just cams over and I just bump the shoulder and my rounds chamber like butter, kinda like it was planned that way!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 386741, member: 13632"] Take a new case, never fired and put strips of scotch tape on the back, trimming the edges of and see how many pieces it takes till your bolt gets tight. New brass has roughly .002 head space in a rifle that is set to zero head space on a 270WSM go gauge. You can measure the length of the brass as you add tape to get an idea of what your head space is and the difference between the three. I just went thought a head spacing thing on my rifle, fortunately it's a Savage and I just reset it my self. If your dimpling, do you have lube up on it. When I was having to crush mine down if I had any lube on the shoulder it would dimple so I lube the body and dry lubed the neck. If your running max load and your moving that kinda brass really watch the case web thickness cause it will fail after .010 of thinning. It's kinda funny but after I reset my head spacing to .002 on a go gauge I then set my die (Redding) to the gauge ,I then had to turn it in just a touch for spring back and the die is set to where the shell holder and the die meet and the handle just cams over and I just bump the shoulder and my rounds chamber like butter, kinda like it was planned that way! [/QUOTE]
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