I haven't had my *** kicked reloading before. I haven't reloaded 243 in years because I loaded all my empty cases and sorted everything. But it was antelope draw year so I brought out my Rem SPS 26 inch Varminter. We both have one and sighted in and practiced for days shooting a few hundred 105's.
So yesterday I set up the single stage for resizing. Lubed everything like normal and the third case got stuck in the die. The single stage arm got hard at the end to close so I stopped and went the other way and it tore the edges of the rim off. Years ago I thought up the grand idea of how to remove cases by 1/4 inch drill down through the primer pocket, 5/16 20 tap to thread it. Install a 5/6th all thread rod through the threaded primer pocket. Then just run a nut down the all thread on top of a 9/16th 12 point tall socket and it pulls the case right out of the die. No problem other than drilling and tapping the stuck case.
so I thoroughly clean the die inside and out in the solvent tank. blow dry and even spray lube up inside the die. next case gets stuck again. Same taping....... to remove it. So I think that maybe these rounds have been shot a couple of times before so I anneal all the cases to soften them up. die gets really cleaned again and I lube up an annealed case and it get stuck. I removed it again and said **** on RCBS new looking 243 full length die. I got out my neck sizer and finish all the cases.
My problem is that I can't see anything wrong? Got any guesses?
So yesterday I set up the single stage for resizing. Lubed everything like normal and the third case got stuck in the die. The single stage arm got hard at the end to close so I stopped and went the other way and it tore the edges of the rim off. Years ago I thought up the grand idea of how to remove cases by 1/4 inch drill down through the primer pocket, 5/16 20 tap to thread it. Install a 5/6th all thread rod through the threaded primer pocket. Then just run a nut down the all thread on top of a 9/16th 12 point tall socket and it pulls the case right out of the die. No problem other than drilling and tapping the stuck case.
so I thoroughly clean the die inside and out in the solvent tank. blow dry and even spray lube up inside the die. next case gets stuck again. Same taping....... to remove it. So I think that maybe these rounds have been shot a couple of times before so I anneal all the cases to soften them up. die gets really cleaned again and I lube up an annealed case and it get stuck. I removed it again and said **** on RCBS new looking 243 full length die. I got out my neck sizer and finish all the cases.
My problem is that I can't see anything wrong? Got any guesses?