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I have some as far as i know once fired 308 brass not fired from my new rifle ive hopefully set up the new dies correctly and resized and deprimed the cases .
now b4 i went any further i wanted to check that it fitted into my rifle , I cant close the bolt on these shells ,what would be the cause and can it be fixed .....brand new cases fit perfectly

Full length sized and trimmed?

gj, do you have factory 308 round? does that chamber ?

full length size, and check again. it could just be a case of headspace difference between your rifle and the one that fired the cases...

once you've fireformed them in your rife, neck size and check again.

if a factory / saami spec round does not chamber, take it to a smith to check it out.

Wind your die down an 1/8th turn if you can till they chamber. If you have the die as far as it can go I would just get new brass unless ya want muck around with cartridge holders and stuff.
It will just be a headspace issue or the cases were overloaded possibly.
How well does a primer seat?


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im pickin that they have been overloaded ... im just about to go try your suggestions

Originally Posted by R93

Wind your die down an 1/8th turn if you can till they chamber. If you have the die as far as it can go I would just get new brass unless ya want muck around with cartridge holders and stuff.
It will just be a headspace issue or the cases were overloaded possibly.
How well does a primer seat?


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i have full lenght sized em with hornady dies
dont have any factory ammo for it

Originally Posted by ebf

gj, do you have factory 308 round? does that chamber ?

full length size, and check again. it could just be a case of headspace difference between your rifle and the one that fired the cases...

once you've fireformed them in your rife, neck size and check again.

if a factory / saami spec round does not chamber, take it to a smith to check it out.

I found a Tikka i reload for is quite short in the chamber

Do what r93 said but you may have to go a little further down with the die than just touching the holder to account for press stretch .

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FL size. Done deal.
If his FL die wont size this brass to his chamber it won't size any.

Also anealing will help move the shoulder if you can't get it with the method above

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What make of brass?

there were 3 types of brass mostly winchester couple of federal & S&B think ill just biff them
I loaded a few rounds of the new fed brass and fired them off just so i test the T3
so now i can get to setting up some real tack drivers and site it in

I finally got them to load
Just needed to wind down the die just that fraction bit more
Thx oh wiser ones:banghead:

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Hi all, I have a Lee turret press, and screw the FL and NK dies down until they touch the shell holder, when the ram is up fully, and then a smidge more to get a real solid camming action with the handle. Is this normal? Should it not be touching the shell holder, I don't know how you could screw it down 1/8 turn at a time otherwise??
Thanks for any advise in advance :-)

Cheers,

Len

Originally Posted by onslaught5012

Hi all, I have a Lee turret press, and screw the FL and NK dies down until they touch the shell holder, when the ram is up fully, and then a smidge more to get a real solid camming action with the handle. Is this normal? Should it not be touching the shell holder, I don't know how you could screw it down 1/8 turn at a time otherwise??
Thanks for any advise in advance :-)

Cheers,Len

It really depends on the head space of your rifle, just setting for the maximum sizing is not recommended as it could result in your ammo having excess head space stretching the web/body junction each firing resulting in case head separation.

Start with a case that has some resistance to closing the bolt in your rifle,wind up half a turn from the shell holder size and wind down 1/8th of a turn until the bolt just closes easily or just the slightest tension.

Not one of Toby's 6.5's that he formed to 308?