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What am I doing wrong with sizing brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stammster" data-source="post: 1982728" data-attributes="member: 114381"><p>On to the next issue, can you slightly tap the case head so that the round inserts into the case gauge, or does it seem to have a hard stop?</p><p></p><p>Hornady brass, and sometimes Remington brass (2-3 per 100) seems to have a slight head offset...where they get hung up in a wall interference fit into the case gauge after resizing. I can usually tap it down fully, but have just gotten in the habit of just discarding the case. </p><p></p><p>If you are checking every case after resizing, and all is fine, but the problem is occurring after seating the bullet, then that's not the problem. However if you don't check every case after sizing, you could have the bump set right and still not fit in the gauge - only to find out after the round is completed. </p><p></p><p>That's the reason I added the step to check every case in my case gauge just after resizing, even though I use my Hornady comparator tool to verify every shoulder bump length after resizing. The case gauge is not so much for the shoulder verification, but for other issues like concentricity and to make sure my FL die sizes near the base correctly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stammster, post: 1982728, member: 114381"] On to the next issue, can you slightly tap the case head so that the round inserts into the case gauge, or does it seem to have a hard stop? Hornady brass, and sometimes Remington brass (2-3 per 100) seems to have a slight head offset...where they get hung up in a wall interference fit into the case gauge after resizing. I can usually tap it down fully, but have just gotten in the habit of just discarding the case. If you are checking every case after resizing, and all is fine, but the problem is occurring after seating the bullet, then that’s not the problem. However if you don’t check every case after sizing, you could have the bump set right and still not fit in the gauge - only to find out after the round is completed. That’s the reason I added the step to check every case in my case gauge just after resizing, even though I use my Hornady comparator tool to verify every shoulder bump length after resizing. The case gauge is not so much for the shoulder verification, but for other issues like concentricity and to make sure my FL die sizes near the base correctly. [/QUOTE]
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