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Started reloading for the .308 Winchester a month ago. i have reloaded about 30 years so I know most of the tricks. I picked up 500 rounds of once fired brass from TCCI here in Phoenix. in case anyone living in the area wants to know this has been where to buy your reloading supplies without turning over your first born. The cost is a little over half what you'll pay anywhere else.
Anyway has anyone ever gotten a sizing die that is just a pain to work. The cases were well lubed and the die set right, the brass is good but just getting it into the die takes an act of God. As soon as it gets past the neck expansion and before it even starts to de-cap the primmer it starts to bind. I have had a couple that I haven't been able to size at all with most having to do 1/4 inch at a time. I load 30/06 and never have I had this problem. The brass is made at the Lake City Ordnance Plant so it isn't the brass. Once de-capped and sized it fall into specs. Has anyone ever gotten hold of a die having this trouble or could it be the weapon that fired the rounds? The brass before sizing at it's base is .468 and at the shoulder .453 to ,460 of an inch.
Anyway has anyone ever gotten a sizing die that is just a pain to work. The cases were well lubed and the die set right, the brass is good but just getting it into the die takes an act of God. As soon as it gets past the neck expansion and before it even starts to de-cap the primmer it starts to bind. I have had a couple that I haven't been able to size at all with most having to do 1/4 inch at a time. I load 30/06 and never have I had this problem. The brass is made at the Lake City Ordnance Plant so it isn't the brass. Once de-capped and sized it fall into specs. Has anyone ever gotten hold of a die having this trouble or could it be the weapon that fired the rounds? The brass before sizing at it's base is .468 and at the shoulder .453 to ,460 of an inch.