I recently purchased Redding Type S Match die set with .288 bushings and I'm having difficulty resizing my fired Lapua brass. I clean my brass inside and out, lube it with Imperial sizing die wax then insert into into the resizing die and the operation of resizing meets resistance. The brass comes out of the die, with the use of unessecary force with measurements top of neck .288, but as we go down the neck it gets bigger, to the base of the neck reading .300 before it hits the shoulder. Even without the bushing in, the brass meets a ton of force when resizing. With new unfired brass, resizing is smooth and the neck comes out with proper measurements. I'm just stumped for I didn't meet these types of problems with my Hornady dies, so maybe I'm just not setting up my new Redding die right? I cleaned the dies, checked them and followed directions to setting them up.
Also, I check the resized brass in my Wilson gage for headspace and the head just barely sits above the upper gauge, so the directions call for bumping the shoulder back just a bit to allow the case to sit deeper into the gauge, but again I'll turn the die to sit lower, but no change. So I'm stumped there as well. lol
Thank you for any response.
Also, I check the resized brass in my Wilson gage for headspace and the head just barely sits above the upper gauge, so the directions call for bumping the shoulder back just a bit to allow the case to sit deeper into the gauge, but again I'll turn the die to sit lower, but no change. So I'm stumped there as well. lol
Thank you for any response.
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