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Tight chamber: resizing loading ammo
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<blockquote data-quote="freddiej" data-source="post: 1766713" data-attributes="member: 26227"><p>Okay popcorn is done, I have to type now. :</p><p>I have a client, RJ, he has had several 243's with severe problems, these are off the shelf guns, one Rem, one Savage, and one Browning. certain lots of off the shelf ammo will not chamber in his gun.. PPU is the biggest offender. some Winchester, Some Rem, and some Federal have also had problems fitting into his chamber. we sent the Rem and Browning back to the factories to have them looked at. One came back with a note of, "Checked out ok with gauges and chambered all ammo." The other factory stated they had checked, failed the chamber, reamed the chamber and the rifle chambered ammo. This is where it gets weird. I tried PPU ammo again and 1 in 2 would not chamber in the reamed chamber, no PPU ammo would chamber in the other one that checked out OK at the factory. I had a set of 243 dies on hand and resized all fired cases of PPU, one in 20 would chamber. annealed all cases, and resized again, one in 5 would chamber, annealed again and resized, all chambered. bought a small base die set for 243. sized all recently fired brass with SB die set and every piece of brass chambered. 18 months of problems out the window with a SB die set. One drawback to the SB die set fix.. PPU brass really hates to be sized in that set of dies. now we use Win or Federal. R-P does some funky things in the SB die set.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freddiej, post: 1766713, member: 26227"] Okay popcorn is done, I have to type now. : I have a client, RJ, he has had several 243's with severe problems, these are off the shelf guns, one Rem, one Savage, and one Browning. certain lots of off the shelf ammo will not chamber in his gun.. PPU is the biggest offender. some Winchester, Some Rem, and some Federal have also had problems fitting into his chamber. we sent the Rem and Browning back to the factories to have them looked at. One came back with a note of, "Checked out ok with gauges and chambered all ammo." The other factory stated they had checked, failed the chamber, reamed the chamber and the rifle chambered ammo. This is where it gets weird. I tried PPU ammo again and 1 in 2 would not chamber in the reamed chamber, no PPU ammo would chamber in the other one that checked out OK at the factory. I had a set of 243 dies on hand and resized all fired cases of PPU, one in 20 would chamber. annealed all cases, and resized again, one in 5 would chamber, annealed again and resized, all chambered. bought a small base die set for 243. sized all recently fired brass with SB die set and every piece of brass chambered. 18 months of problems out the window with a SB die set. One drawback to the SB die set fix.. PPU brass really hates to be sized in that set of dies. now we use Win or Federal. R-P does some funky things in the SB die set. [/QUOTE]
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