Hello All,
I'm trying to resize my 270wsm once fired brass, and despite using 2 different FL dies (Redding and Lee) I cannot get them to bump back. At all. I have set up the dies as instructed - turn until it makes contact with shell holder, pull the press back and turn it a little more. From what I understand this should resize the brass back to saami spec, basically around where my new brass is. The problem is it doesn't seem to bump the shoulders back at all - with either die. I have longer brass from another rifle that measures about .008 longer than new. Neither die even touches this stuff.
If neither die worked, my next thought was the shell holder (it must be too tall right?). According to Redding the standard shell holder height should be .125 from top to the plane that holds the case. I measured mine, and its about dead on to .125, certainly not something like .008 longer.
I'm at a bit of a loss. The next step seems to be to file the shell holder down, but I'm not sure I can take .008 off without weakening the holder too much. (The RCBS holders that change this dimension go up, not down, so I don't think they will work.)
I'm using Hornady one shot lube, it seems to work fine. The cases go in and out pretty easily, I'm just bottoming out the press on the shell holder. New rifle will not chamber the old (longer) brass, it will chamber its own brass but roughly- I have to put some force on the bolt. chambers new brass fine. It seems like a tight chamber, but I would think my dies should be able to bump at least the long brass back a little.
For added confusion: I've used the Redding die with my friends coax (I have a lee press) and it resized things fine, I was able to bump the long brass at least back like .004 and get it to fit the new rifle.
Any Ideas? Thanks,
I'm trying to resize my 270wsm once fired brass, and despite using 2 different FL dies (Redding and Lee) I cannot get them to bump back. At all. I have set up the dies as instructed - turn until it makes contact with shell holder, pull the press back and turn it a little more. From what I understand this should resize the brass back to saami spec, basically around where my new brass is. The problem is it doesn't seem to bump the shoulders back at all - with either die. I have longer brass from another rifle that measures about .008 longer than new. Neither die even touches this stuff.
If neither die worked, my next thought was the shell holder (it must be too tall right?). According to Redding the standard shell holder height should be .125 from top to the plane that holds the case. I measured mine, and its about dead on to .125, certainly not something like .008 longer.
I'm at a bit of a loss. The next step seems to be to file the shell holder down, but I'm not sure I can take .008 off without weakening the holder too much. (The RCBS holders that change this dimension go up, not down, so I don't think they will work.)
I'm using Hornady one shot lube, it seems to work fine. The cases go in and out pretty easily, I'm just bottoming out the press on the shell holder. New rifle will not chamber the old (longer) brass, it will chamber its own brass but roughly- I have to put some force on the bolt. chambers new brass fine. It seems like a tight chamber, but I would think my dies should be able to bump at least the long brass back a little.
For added confusion: I've used the Redding die with my friends coax (I have a lee press) and it resized things fine, I was able to bump the long brass at least back like .004 and get it to fit the new rifle.
Any Ideas? Thanks,