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Proceedure for belted cases ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hired Gun" data-source="post: 90194" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p>Were your once fired brass fired in your same rifle. Unless you have some serious hot loads the fired brass should go right back into the same chamber no problem. I load for 3 different Weatherby's and they all will rechamber their own fired brass no problem and no camming. You do have to give it a good shove sometimes to get the extractor over the rim but once it's over you cam just run them in and out and the bolt drops shut with almost no effort. Now if I try to chamber a fired brass out of my son's identicle 257 Accumark into my Accumark you can't get it anywhere near closing and you will need a cleaning rod to get that brass back. They are different. That said I use Lee collet dies on all my guns including these belted cases. 257Wby, 7mm Rem Mag, 300 Wby mag. Eventually they all need a slight cam action to close but the never get worse. My 3650 fps 100 grain 257 bullets have test brass at 10 loadings and they still chamber with a little bolt closing effort. Same for all my guns after about the 3rd reload. I quit full length sizing 15 years ago. I just keeps my lugs cleaned and lubed and resize them in the gun if you will. Doing this has also all but stopped the growth of my brass so my trimmer is about on full retirement. To answer the question of how to prep my new brass. I would measure them all to be sure they are not to long. A light chamfer to help get the bullets in without scratching them. Run them through the collet die to uniform the necks and then after the first firing I would trim them all to a uniform length, chamfer and then back to the collet die from then on. I personally do nothing with primer pockets ever. I'd rather spend my time shooting than at the bench.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hired Gun, post: 90194, member: 1290"] Were your once fired brass fired in your same rifle. Unless you have some serious hot loads the fired brass should go right back into the same chamber no problem. I load for 3 different Weatherby's and they all will rechamber their own fired brass no problem and no camming. You do have to give it a good shove sometimes to get the extractor over the rim but once it's over you cam just run them in and out and the bolt drops shut with almost no effort. Now if I try to chamber a fired brass out of my son's identicle 257 Accumark into my Accumark you can't get it anywhere near closing and you will need a cleaning rod to get that brass back. They are different. That said I use Lee collet dies on all my guns including these belted cases. 257Wby, 7mm Rem Mag, 300 Wby mag. Eventually they all need a slight cam action to close but the never get worse. My 3650 fps 100 grain 257 bullets have test brass at 10 loadings and they still chamber with a little bolt closing effort. Same for all my guns after about the 3rd reload. I quit full length sizing 15 years ago. I just keeps my lugs cleaned and lubed and resize them in the gun if you will. Doing this has also all but stopped the growth of my brass so my trimmer is about on full retirement. To answer the question of how to prep my new brass. I would measure them all to be sure they are not to long. A light chamfer to help get the bullets in without scratching them. Run them through the collet die to uniform the necks and then after the first firing I would trim them all to a uniform length, chamfer and then back to the collet die from then on. I personally do nothing with primer pockets ever. I'd rather spend my time shooting than at the bench. [/QUOTE]
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