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Can you have too much head space?
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<blockquote data-quote="kiwikid" data-source="post: 1482496" data-attributes="member: 56094"><p>A couple of years ago I had a similar issue to what you are having. I had a new 223. rifle and 100 new Lapua Match cases. I seated a projectile into three of the empty cases so they would engage the rifling and seat the bullet as I closed the bolt to find the COAL. Once I had measured them I seated the projectiles .020" deeper and smoked the projectiles and ran them back into the chamber to check that they were not hitting the rifling. One of the three cases would not extract. I checked the rifle with head space gauges and it was all good. I scratched my head for a while and then ran all the new cases through a .223 Wilson cartridge case gauge and found 10 of the 100 cases were under size to the point where they were well below the minimum mark on the gauge. None of those 10 cases would extract. This was a factory fault as I had only chamfered and deburred the cases. </p><p></p><p>So to answer your question, IMO yes it would be possible to bump the shoulders back too far and then the cases would not extract.</p><p></p><p>As bob4 and JE Custom have suggested I too would not fire those rounds in your rifle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwikid, post: 1482496, member: 56094"] A couple of years ago I had a similar issue to what you are having. I had a new 223. rifle and 100 new Lapua Match cases. I seated a projectile into three of the empty cases so they would engage the rifling and seat the bullet as I closed the bolt to find the COAL. Once I had measured them I seated the projectiles .020" deeper and smoked the projectiles and ran them back into the chamber to check that they were not hitting the rifling. One of the three cases would not extract. I checked the rifle with head space gauges and it was all good. I scratched my head for a while and then ran all the new cases through a .223 Wilson cartridge case gauge and found 10 of the 100 cases were under size to the point where they were well below the minimum mark on the gauge. None of those 10 cases would extract. This was a factory fault as I had only chamfered and deburred the cases. So to answer your question, IMO yes it would be possible to bump the shoulders back too far and then the cases would not extract. As bob4 and JE Custom have suggested I too would not fire those rounds in your rifle. [/QUOTE]
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