Just started reloading rifle rounds (i.e. the grendel and getting ready to do 30-06). I had a friend help me get set up, but I don't want to keep bugging him if someone could help me out here.
I have a dillon 550 reloader w/ a dedicated tool head for the 6.5 grendel. On that tool head, I have the hornady new dimension seating die and sizing/de-priming die, and the dillon powder die. so, in other words, i have three our of the four stations on my tool head that i'm using. so i guess i don't have a crimping die?
my tool head and dies are set up properly. and for prep, on my once-shot casings i de-primed/sized the casings, and then i lightly lubed them using a lube pad (being careful not to get any on the outside of the neck - i did the inside of neck and wide part of casing). after this i tumbled them to clean them and also get all of the lube off.
anyway, i reloaded about 28 rounds the other day and went outside and shot some. after shooting some rounds, my weapon jammed. after the first jam i noticed that the round wasn't seating all the way into the chamber b/c my bold was not all the way forward. it was hard to eject the round, but i did it. well, a few rounds after this i had 2 or 3 in a row do the same as above.
later when looking at it, i disassembled my weapon and manually tried to seat the rounds i loaded and some factory hornady ammo. the hornady ammo would slide right into and back out of the chamber without issues. the rounds i loaded would only go half way in and then be slightly hard to get them back out again (would have been much harder if i had tried to force the rounds into the chamber).
Question: this is what i found... the shoulder on the casings that i re-loaded were flared out! and the hornady ones weren't. i don't know how this happened or how to fix it... can someone help me?
Thanks in advance for even looking at this thread!
I have a dillon 550 reloader w/ a dedicated tool head for the 6.5 grendel. On that tool head, I have the hornady new dimension seating die and sizing/de-priming die, and the dillon powder die. so, in other words, i have three our of the four stations on my tool head that i'm using. so i guess i don't have a crimping die?
my tool head and dies are set up properly. and for prep, on my once-shot casings i de-primed/sized the casings, and then i lightly lubed them using a lube pad (being careful not to get any on the outside of the neck - i did the inside of neck and wide part of casing). after this i tumbled them to clean them and also get all of the lube off.
anyway, i reloaded about 28 rounds the other day and went outside and shot some. after shooting some rounds, my weapon jammed. after the first jam i noticed that the round wasn't seating all the way into the chamber b/c my bold was not all the way forward. it was hard to eject the round, but i did it. well, a few rounds after this i had 2 or 3 in a row do the same as above.
later when looking at it, i disassembled my weapon and manually tried to seat the rounds i loaded and some factory hornady ammo. the hornady ammo would slide right into and back out of the chamber without issues. the rounds i loaded would only go half way in and then be slightly hard to get them back out again (would have been much harder if i had tried to force the rounds into the chamber).
Question: this is what i found... the shoulder on the casings that i re-loaded were flared out! and the hornady ones weren't. i don't know how this happened or how to fix it... can someone help me?
Thanks in advance for even looking at this thread!
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