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Sticky Bolt after 3rd-4th shot on brass
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<blockquote data-quote="SAPPER26" data-source="post: 726262" data-attributes="member: 23660"><p>Longrange,</p><p></p><p>What dies are you using? I had a similar problem with my custom lapua. New and once fired brass were fine, bolt wasn't stiff extracting. 3rd time was a different story. I could still get the brass out easy enough, but it was very stiff, even after I backed off the load plenty. I re-sized them with a FL Forster match die. Chambered a freshly sized round and it was stiff closing the bolt and lifting. Shoulder was bumped back .002". Bumped back farther, still stiff. After talking to the guys on here, I had two possibilities; my chamber was too tight due to a worn reamer, or my die wasn't sizing the cases correctly. I figured on the latter since I could still place a case into the die when I took out the expander ball. It would only size the neck, the body of the case wouldn't touch the body if the die. bought a Redding body die and solved the issue. It sized the cases like it was supposed to. I guess it took a few firings to expand the case enough to make it extract more difficult. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SAPPER26, post: 726262, member: 23660"] Longrange, What dies are you using? I had a similar problem with my custom lapua. New and once fired brass were fine, bolt wasn't stiff extracting. 3rd time was a different story. I could still get the brass out easy enough, but it was very stiff, even after I backed off the load plenty. I re-sized them with a FL Forster match die. Chambered a freshly sized round and it was stiff closing the bolt and lifting. Shoulder was bumped back .002". Bumped back farther, still stiff. After talking to the guys on here, I had two possibilities; my chamber was too tight due to a worn reamer, or my die wasn't sizing the cases correctly. I figured on the latter since I could still place a case into the die when I took out the expander ball. It would only size the neck, the body of the case wouldn't touch the body if the die. bought a Redding body die and solved the issue. It sized the cases like it was supposed to. I guess it took a few firings to expand the case enough to make it extract more difficult. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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