Hikinghunter
Well-Known Member
trying out my type s dies for the first time (newbie to hand loading). I'm having a terrible time getting my headspace right.
Set everything up per Eric cortina's YouTube video. Got my die worked in with a nice .002 bump. Tested out my brass in the rifle with a piece of tape to confirm, etc. everything looked good to go.
So I go along re-sizing my brass. The first one measures .002 bump. The second .0005, the third .001, and the 4th doesnt resize at all. So I fiddle around with the die and seem to keep chasing it (screwing the die in a bit more every few resizings to get a bump) finally the thing seemed to "settle", but by then I'm bumping .004. I figure it's not the end of the world, so I start again and re-size everything so I'm at least consistent.
At the end of it all, my setup is giving me shoulder bumps between of .004 to .006. So it sizes plus or minus 1 thou. I guess that was the original problem.
Wondering if this is unusual. I'm using a Lyman t-mag 2 press, which is admittedly not the best. It does have a pretty fair amount of cam-over.
Any thoughts on how to get better consistently?
Set everything up per Eric cortina's YouTube video. Got my die worked in with a nice .002 bump. Tested out my brass in the rifle with a piece of tape to confirm, etc. everything looked good to go.
So I go along re-sizing my brass. The first one measures .002 bump. The second .0005, the third .001, and the 4th doesnt resize at all. So I fiddle around with the die and seem to keep chasing it (screwing the die in a bit more every few resizings to get a bump) finally the thing seemed to "settle", but by then I'm bumping .004. I figure it's not the end of the world, so I start again and re-size everything so I'm at least consistent.
At the end of it all, my setup is giving me shoulder bumps between of .004 to .006. So it sizes plus or minus 1 thou. I guess that was the original problem.
Wondering if this is unusual. I'm using a Lyman t-mag 2 press, which is admittedly not the best. It does have a pretty fair amount of cam-over.
Any thoughts on how to get better consistently?