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<blockquote data-quote="Idgunner" data-source="post: 3028864" data-attributes="member: 84194"><p>This has been a learning experience for sure. I assumed that my 223 Lapua cases had developed donuts while I was seating bullets and a good percentage of them seemed to hit a hard spot in the seating stroke. I sent 5 cases to L.E.Wilson and their tech said they did NOT have donuts. I had already ordered their case trimmer and a 22 cal reamer so when it arrived I ran it through about 70 cases. It did not touch one neck on the inside (on fired unsized cases). </p><p>After pondering this puzzle, I decided to try two things. First, I put the expander ball back onto the end of the decaping rod in the sizing die. I also ran some of the sized cases through an expander die. Then the bullet seating process when as smooth as butter. Go figure. The good thing is that both groups of cases shot bug holes at the range and that's all that matters in the end.</p><p>I appreciate all of the replies to my original thread because I learned something from reading all of them. More input is always good.</p><p>So, I imagine that there will be someone here who will chide me for being a doofus. Don't care. I learned something from this and I hope someone else does as well. Besides now I have two great case trimmers with one set for my 223 brass and one set for my 25-06 brass and I no longer have to readjust one to do the other. It also appears that my reloading process has developed very accurate ammo. Oh, I also repurposed an old arrow straightener to make a concentricity gauge and all of my brass now is within 0.001 inch at the neck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idgunner, post: 3028864, member: 84194"] This has been a learning experience for sure. I assumed that my 223 Lapua cases had developed donuts while I was seating bullets and a good percentage of them seemed to hit a hard spot in the seating stroke. I sent 5 cases to L.E.Wilson and their tech said they did NOT have donuts. I had already ordered their case trimmer and a 22 cal reamer so when it arrived I ran it through about 70 cases. It did not touch one neck on the inside (on fired unsized cases). After pondering this puzzle, I decided to try two things. First, I put the expander ball back onto the end of the decaping rod in the sizing die. I also ran some of the sized cases through an expander die. Then the bullet seating process when as smooth as butter. Go figure. The good thing is that both groups of cases shot bug holes at the range and that's all that matters in the end. I appreciate all of the replies to my original thread because I learned something from reading all of them. More input is always good. So, I imagine that there will be someone here who will chide me for being a doofus. Don't care. I learned something from this and I hope someone else does as well. Besides now I have two great case trimmers with one set for my 223 brass and one set for my 25-06 brass and I no longer have to readjust one to do the other. It also appears that my reloading process has developed very accurate ammo. Oh, I also repurposed an old arrow straightener to make a concentricity gauge and all of my brass now is within 0.001 inch at the neck. [/QUOTE]
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