sizing die help needed
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Re: sizing die help needed
I have on several time run new starline brass and other range picked up brass that was sized and run them thru a progressive press and only found it easier (took much less force) to run them thru the process than a once fired case would. So once again I will repeat what I said above; Something is strange if they fit the chamber and not the resizing die. Even if there was some kind of case processing agent on the cases and they fit the chamber then they will fit and be able to be resized with either of the dies you mentioned. Send me a couple of these "new" cases. I'd like to measure them. I also doubt that either of, or both of the dies are defective.
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Re: sizing die help needed
I agree and just don't see how it fits in the gun but not in the die?daboone wrote:I have on several time run new starline brass and other range picked up brass that was sized and run them thru a progressive press and only found it easier (took much less force) to run them thru the process than a once fired case would. So once again I will repeat what I said above; Something is strange if they fit the chamber and not the resizing die. Even if there was some kind of case processing agent on the cases and they fit the chamber then they will fit and be able to be resized with either of the dies you mentioned. Send me a couple of these "new" cases. I'd like to measure them. I also doubt that either of, or both of the dies are defective.
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Re: sizing die help needed
I have a pile of unsized new Starline .357 brass here. I guess I could try them in my Lee set and measure before and after. My dies are 3-4 years old. The brass is about one year old. I have a nice vintage RCBS? set too if that helps.
I can do nearly any test that would help.
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Re: sizing die help needed
all - thanks very much. doesn't seem right to me either, but the new, untumbled brass definitely cycles through the rifle fine.
daboone - sent you a pm for your address, happy to send you some of the brass and thanks for your offer of help.
daboone - sent you a pm for your address, happy to send you some of the brass and thanks for your offer of help.
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Re: sizing die help needed
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Re: sizing die help needed
back at ya. two cases on the way. one untouched (except by my hands) and the other run up into my lee carbide die.
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Re: sizing die help needed
That's easy several of my carbide dies make coke bottles out of cases the Colts are the worst offender the chamber in the carbine is probably. 486 while the BlackHawk is more like .480-1 and the sizer ring is closer to .470.
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Re: sizing die help needed
so the answer is not to resize? use non-carbide dies and lube? or something else?
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Re: sizing die help needed
Measure the unsized Starline brass. Measure a sized case. How much is the OD being reduced? Perhaps try a couple without the decapping stem in place, just a WAG but the pin may be interfering with something.
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Re: sizing die help needed
"WAG"? Wives And Girlfriends?
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
When setting a job up for myself it must be Idiot Proof as well, as I am a bigger idiot than most people I know, and I prove it to myself everyday.
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