Recent content by jjh1

That will be nice!! Now if we can just get quality primers!! In 25 years of reloading I've never had a box of bad primers.

Well, after all of this it turns out I had bad primers they were brand new, remington 9-1/2. Switched to some cci primers and worked up to 54.5 grains of powder. Loaded ammo is firing every time and brass is forming properly. Thanks everyone for the help!

Good points. There is a dimple where the primer was hit which baffles me, you'd think they would have fired

I used 52 gr of IMR4350 with 150 gr bullet. It's the very low end of the load data. I had the same thought you did, so I loaded one at 53 and one at 54 but I can't get them to fire even with the extractor pin removed and the bullet getting jammed into the lands when closing the bolt

Thank you so much for all of the info. I will measure the shoulder and check that. The fact that it won't snap into the bolt face and eject tells me that the shoulder is too short as well, though?

I appreciate it! So here goes, I bought ADG 7SAUM brass. Sized it and trimmed it. Wouldnt catch in the bolt face so I left the bullets out a bit so they would jamb into the lands when closing the bolt amd force the brass back into the bolt. I also removed the ejector pin from the bolt to...

I'm trying the same thing, can't get most round to fire even after removing extractor pin and seating bullets long so they are shoved into the lands. The one I got to fire crushed the shoulder of the case?? Any ideas?

I'm pretty new here but have been reloading for a long time. I'm having a hell of a time trying to fire form 7 saum. Wonder if I could pick your brain?

Sure worth a try at this point. Have $150 in the 7 saum brass that I hate to waste. Thank you!

So life being what it is I just got around to finally trying to shoot the gun. I remove the extractor pin and left the bullet's long so they are jammed into the lands. I only got one out of 4 to fire even though you can see where the firing pin hit the primer on the other three. Here is a pic...

That worked, thanks!

Thanks for the heads up. When I emailed them before I started building this gun they said they had no plans of producing it so that is good news

Wow, so they got shorter after pushing the shoulder out....... Shoulder expanded and it pulled the neck back?

From what I'm seeing 7 saum starts out at 2.035 long and 6.8 western is to be trimmed at 2.020 so I'm curious how your brass is that short? Am I missing something? This is my first time fire forming.

So should I just load and fire one? Should it catch at that point after everything expands?