Thread: 308 case differences?

I've Ben loading for twenty something years , this is the first time I've struck this issue. Worst case I'll load the non sticky ones only

Lol usually I just screw the f/l in a 1/16th at a time or get heavy with the body dies...

Could be that those cases have been fired in a loose chamber and now you need a small base die to get em back down to fit a "normal" or "tight" chamber.
You could
Bin the tight ones use the good ones.
Size the tight ones down as far as posible seat a pill out into the lands(to retain something to headspace on) and fire form.
Buy some new brass.

Yea stop bein a tight prick... Get some new brass lol

Yep will do, I do have a lot of brass

I had a bunch of 270 brass that came with a gun I brought - about 1000 pieces of it
1/2 of it was fucked - same thing you are describing - unknon number of firings.
Dumped the lot on TM and scored a bunch of once fired RP and have had no probs with the same press, dies etc

Originally Posted by Spanners

I had a bunch of 270 brass that came with a gun I brought - about 1000 pieces of it
1/2 of it was fucked - same thing you are describing - unknon number of firings.
Dumped the lot on TM and scored a bunch of once fired RP and have had no probs with the same press, dies etc

Hahahahaha

You wouldn't be the first to to dump 1/2 fucked brass on TM either

I struck the same problem with some 250 Savage I was working on- only some brass would chamber after a F/L resise. The guy I got one of the rifles and dies off swore it was the dies - and he has reloaded for a very long time. I ground down a shell holder and it seemed to cure the problem. Then I had one of the 250's rebarrelled, and asked the 'smith to check the headspace in both my 250's.

He reckoned they were both "quite tight". Anyhow I was ruing this and in the meantime got a new (to me) RCBS Rockchucker press. Reloaded a bunch of 250 ammo - Oh Buggar - forgot to use the shaved shell-holder.

Well you know all those rounds were just fine - my old press must have had too much flex - and I've done a couple of hundred of all sorts of brass since on the RCBS and no problems.

So - Maybe get the gorse out of your pockets Antsman and get a decent press (or borrow one to use with your dies as a trial) - that might go a long way to solving your issues.

haha gorse in me pockets, i cant see how the press is the problem, when the shell holder touches the die, altho it is still possible,,,

could be the dies too, guess i could borrow mates 308 dies to try in my press,,,



thanks for the post mate

when you set up the fl die,

> close ram on press with shell holder
> screw die till touching
> open ram
> screw die down further 1/8 to 1/4
> resize case and still and have issues?

Yep done that 5 times over. Still same probs

Hate to say this but a real stiff press will make a difference when you do this. I was only teasing about the gorse, see if you can try your dies in someone else's press . . . Worth a try before you mess with altering shell holders/dies etc.