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Thread: STRAIGHTENING A CROOKED BULLET

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    Greetings All,
    John Barsness, one of my favourite handloading writers, had an article in Handloader mag recently. He looked at reasons for projectile run out and identified the expander ball as a significant culprit. He got better results by sizing the case with the expander ball removed and then expanding the neck by running the expander ball into the case just through the neck and back out again. Obviously you need to remove the spent primer first which I do with a Lee punch and base set anyway. The reason given is that only part of the rim is supported when pulling the case out of the die but the whole head is when pushing it in. Also make sure that you chamfer the inside of the neck before loading including new brass.
    Regards Grandpamac.

 

 

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