Boyd Brooks
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So those scratches appeared after running them through the chamber of the rifle, not before.So a few developments on this thread. Got my Redding 416 Taylor die today! Hurray! The guns intl listing didn't scam me!
So to the bench it was this afternoon. Previously I prepped the brass with trim, chamfer, deburr, flashole cleaning, and annealing. Probably missing some steps but they got the full treatment.
So what I call "batch A" is cases that appear to be new and unfired, but previously sized. I hit these with Hornady Oneshot and ran them through no sweat. Boom! 40 cases ready.
Moved to "Batch B" which are previously sized and fired. This time just using Oneshot appeared to almost wreck everything with 2 cases nearly sticking. Pulled out the RCBS lube pad and redid all cases with that instead and had no other issues.
BUT then here comes the hijinks. batch A had 40. Nice even beautiful number. Batch B had 32. Ugly number. So I decided to take the 2 cases and pop a Speer and Woodleigh in as reference rounds. So using zero book data at all I seated them the their cannalure, popped them in the magwell, and did a chamber/extraction test (the main point of making these at this point).
While that passed I ran into this condition. The round had no major issues going in or coming out. When extracted the bullets appeared to be in the same spot. But pushing on them showed that they were no longer holding tension. I could push them in as shown. Also the cases showed some ugly marks that somewhat concern me.
Now, this poses a question. My initial instinct is to believe the brass in spec after sizing, so why the tension loss after feeding on both bullets. The larger Woodleigh I could see, but I'd expect the shorter Speer to not be an issue if it were a chamber problem. Or maybe I just need a crimp die (and FFL to me finding one if so).
Thoughts??View attachment 594537
Also you said that you got your reloading die, singular? My Redding die set is two dies, full length sizing die and a bullet seating/crimp die.