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Cooper rifle won't chamber twice fired brass
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<blockquote data-quote="freddiej" data-source="post: 1866362" data-attributes="member: 26227"><p>Oh, So many opinions and bits and pieces of truth to this problem. I had a rifle like this. Infact I still own that rifle. it is a Tikka 270 Win. YES, I would check the length of the neck/brass after resizing, due to the first firing and second are the largest growth of your brass. I think the brass might need trimming as well as annealing. I had to buy a small base die, I need to anneal after ever other reloading or the brass just springs back to just a bit to large to go in the chamber. I have found I have collected these kinds of rifles all over my collection, not only my Tikka, but Winchesters and Remingtons. in calibers ranging from 17 Rem to 338 W/M. I usually just anneal and use a small base die when they will not go in the chamber. I also leave the cases in the resizing die for about 5 to 10 seconds. I allow the springy tendency of the brass to relax and take a set in the die. the brass does not spring back as far. also I stage size the brass, first in a normal sizing die and then a small base. </p><p>I have also found that recently Ruger American and Savage rifles are coming with 0.000" to -0.002" SAAMI chambers. That is dead minimum and 0.002" under SAAMI minimum headspaced chambers. Most recently a Savage came in with a -0.001" chamber. I measured the brass after he had resized it. -0.0005" under SAAMI min and it still would not chamber without a fight. the rifle went back to savage with a note that the headspace gauge used was a bit too short. we will see what happens when it returns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freddiej, post: 1866362, member: 26227"] Oh, So many opinions and bits and pieces of truth to this problem. I had a rifle like this. Infact I still own that rifle. it is a Tikka 270 Win. YES, I would check the length of the neck/brass after resizing, due to the first firing and second are the largest growth of your brass. I think the brass might need trimming as well as annealing. I had to buy a small base die, I need to anneal after ever other reloading or the brass just springs back to just a bit to large to go in the chamber. I have found I have collected these kinds of rifles all over my collection, not only my Tikka, but Winchesters and Remingtons. in calibers ranging from 17 Rem to 338 W/M. I usually just anneal and use a small base die when they will not go in the chamber. I also leave the cases in the resizing die for about 5 to 10 seconds. I allow the springy tendency of the brass to relax and take a set in the die. the brass does not spring back as far. also I stage size the brass, first in a normal sizing die and then a small base. I have also found that recently Ruger American and Savage rifles are coming with 0.000" to -0.002" SAAMI chambers. That is dead minimum and 0.002" under SAAMI minimum headspaced chambers. Most recently a Savage came in with a -0.001" chamber. I measured the brass after he had resized it. -0.0005" under SAAMI min and it still would not chamber without a fight. the rifle went back to savage with a note that the headspace gauge used was a bit too short. we will see what happens when it returns. [/QUOTE]
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