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Reloading
Head space getting longer
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<blockquote data-quote="cdherman" data-source="post: 1423470" data-attributes="member: 12282"><p>No one actually explained why your shoulder was longer after reloading. I can.</p><p></p><p>Here is what is happening. I bet $5 you are using FL dies to bump your shoulder back, and I bet another $5 you are using a decapping pin and expander ball to re-expand the neck to a decent internal diameter for your .284 bullet (usual is .283 or so, to give some grip).</p><p></p><p>But you have not been annealing. So your neck is getting harder and harder. The main problem is that the die is setting the shoulder back some, BUT the neck is hard and the expander pulls the shoulder back out, sometimes further than the shoulder was originally. </p><p></p><p>Hope this is correct and also clear.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cdherman, post: 1423470, member: 12282"] No one actually explained why your shoulder was longer after reloading. I can. Here is what is happening. I bet $5 you are using FL dies to bump your shoulder back, and I bet another $5 you are using a decapping pin and expander ball to re-expand the neck to a decent internal diameter for your .284 bullet (usual is .283 or so, to give some grip). But you have not been annealing. So your neck is getting harder and harder. The main problem is that the die is setting the shoulder back some, BUT the neck is hard and the expander pulls the shoulder back out, sometimes further than the shoulder was originally. Hope this is correct and also clear..... [/QUOTE]
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