Stuck 243 in the RCBS full length resizer die

[budlight]

I haven't had my *** kicked reloading before. I haven't reloaded 243 in years because I loaded all my empty cases and sorted everything. But it was antelope draw year so I brought out my Rem SPS 26 inch Varminter. We both have one and sighted in and practiced for days shooting a few hundred 105's.

So yesterday I set up the single stage for resizing. Lubed everything like normal and the third case got stuck in the die. The single stage arm got hard at the end to close so I stopped and went the other way and it tore the edges of the rim off. Years ago I thought up the grand idea of how to remove cases by 1/4 inch drill down through the primer pocket, 5/16 20 tap to thread it. Install a 5/6th all thread rod through the threaded primer pocket. Then just run a nut down the all thread on top of a 9/16th 12 point tall socket and it pulls the case right out of the die. No problem other than drilling and tapping the stuck case.

so I thoroughly clean the die inside and out in the solvent tank. blow dry and even spray lube up inside the die. next case gets stuck again. Same taping....... to remove it. So I think that maybe these rounds have been shot a couple of times before so I anneal all the cases to soften them up. die gets really cleaned again and I lube up an annealed case and it get stuck. I removed it again and said **** on RCBS new looking 243 full length die. I got out my neck sizer and finish all the cases.

My problem is that I can't see anything wrong? Got any guesses?

 

[WILLR]

Question ? are you trying to reload brass fired out of your rifle or from another rifle ? Measure your brass I cannot use brass from a remington 700 FOR MY SAKO . They will stick or the bolt will not close in the sako but will work fine in my sons remington .DO NOT MIX BRASS .

 

[budlight]

My previous reloads, my rifles same model, and it's getting stuck in the die when resizing. Nothing to do with any rifle

 

[QuietTexan]

No corrosion inside the die? Even if the solvent tank took off the oxidized top layer the wall could still be textured and grabbing the brass. Maybe spin a dowel with a mild abrasive like a white 3M pad or 5 -aught steel wool inside the die?

 

[budlight]

I'm willing to do anything. I think that polishing might help. I live in the 10 % humidity dry as bone southwest. so nothing really rusts here. I had converted about 1000 rounds of 308 to 260 and then to 243 and maybe all that mil spec brass was really hard on the dies..... It was too much work with inside and outside neck turnings because the brass gets to thick going from .308 to .243. It was free range brass, but not worth the effort and then Military brass has less interior powder volume than a say winchester 243

 

[WILLR]

IT seems you have several rifles of the same caliber . try running fired casing thru each rifle . There may be different tolerates in each rifle . You should mike each casing to find out if the measurement are up to spec, if you neck down from 308 260 to 243 the brass has to go some where

 

[Laelkhunter]

What resizing lube are you using? Imperial resizing wax works really well.

 

[Blacktailer]

Any chance your lube is no good? I use the stuff from RCBS but have heard really good stuff about Imperial sizing wax.

 

[Blacktailer]

Any chance your lube is no good? I use the stuff from RCBS but have heard really good stuff about Imperial sizing wax.

Great minds think alike!

What resizing lube are you using? Imperial resizing wax works really well.

 

[budlight]

Instead of RCBS lube on the RCBS green pad for years i use STP oil treatment. Probably the same product and I do 1000's of other calibers per year.

I did inside and out side neck turning on an RCBS machine that you buy the cutter heads for all the different calibers

 

[Rick Richard]

Not to say it won't happen, but I have yet to stick a case since using Imperial die wax.

 

[MagnumManiac]

I have only ever stuck a case in a die ONCE. It was a 17 Remington in a Lyman FL die that was full of dust that I had no idea was in there. I broke my stuck case remover on that SOB. Never did get it out.
Anyway, that was using OneSh*t…never used it again.
I use Imperial now or 100% pure bees wax for forming cases, it works better than anything else I have ever tried.
I used RCBS case lube 2 for many years without a problem, maybe your die is too clean, run some lube in it before you put a case in there.

Cheers.

 

[fmuguira]

Try different lube

Rusted, scratched die?

Any chance you got ahold of a steel military case?

 

[skipglo]

I'm willing to do anything. I think that polishing might help. I live in the 10 % humidity dry as bone southwest. so nothing really rusts here. I had converted about 1000 rounds of 308 to 260 and then to 243 and maybe all that mil spec brass was really hard on the dies..... It was too much work with inside and outside neck turnings because the brass gets to thick going from .308 to .243. It was free range brass, but not worth the effort and then Military brass has less interior powder volume than a say winchester 243

I would check your vent hole in the die..see if it's open. Before I would polish the die...I'd buy a new one....there's a fine line between polishing and scratching or roughing. You also said you lube the die. Try removing the decapping pin, pour boiling water thru the die, let it dry, use wd40 on a single case and see if it works...don't lube the die.