25 August 2003, 04:55
marky123.30-30 neck belling
howdy
I loaded a batch of 130gn lead bullets into some once fired,resized lapua brass and fired them no problems.The next batch I tried to load,all
belled the necks so much they wouldn't chamber.I cant figure out why this happened the second time,not the first.The only thing I can think to do is seat the bullet somehow to the correct oal and then run them through the seating die to crimp the cartridge closed.Another thing is,when a fmj bullet is placed into the neck,it slides in and out! Has this happened to anyone else?
25 August 2003, 05:26
Magnum MikeSounds like the necks are work hardening or that your sizing die is not reducing the brass at the neck enough (lapua brass a lil thinner?). Check your sizing die, if it is ok you will have to anneal the brass.
25 August 2003, 05:51
C. A. PlaterJust a thought, most dies stretch the brass a whole lot and until I changed to a RCBS X-die, I needed to trim nearly every time. This was especially severe with my Lee die of the old expander design. Could your brass have grown too long?