"New brass dilema" help please....

09 April 2003, 13:48

<Hunter333>

I got some NEW Winchester ( I know, not high end) brass for Christmas, loaded it, and shot it with good results. After shooting 80 rounds, I deprimed, cut, and primer pocket cleaned the once fired brass after shooting it. When I went to seat the bullet on newly loaded rounds, the bullets just dropped in without any force whatsoever. Having not dealt with this situation before, can someone please lend me some assistance? I am shooting a Marlin, bolt action 30-06. Thank you!

09 April 2003, 13:56

jeffeosso

i would suspect you didn't resize the neck, either by your dies being wrong, setup wrong, or bad from the factory.

run the ram ALL the way up, screw your dies in till then touch the ram, back off 1/2 turn and try to resize 2, AFTER you have deprimed them.

09 April 2003, 15:18

Bigdaddytacp

quote:
Originally posted by Hunter333:
I got some NEW Winchester ( I know, not high end) brass for Christmas, loaded it, and shot it with good results. After shooting 80 rounds, I deprimed, cut, and primer pocket cleaned the once fired brass after shooting it. When I went to seat the bullet on newly loaded rounds, the bullets just dropped in without any force whatsoever. Having not dealt with this situation before, can someone please lend me some assistance? I am shooting a Marlin, bolt action 30-06. Thank you!

...I agree with the other post...missed resizing it after the case prep work.....what type dies....standard,bushing,collet? as they say check the sizing die and the setting of it againist the shellholder.....if bushing die then check bushing size vs. neck wall thickness of the new brass...Winchester brass can be very nice and some bad but most is nice....I had some the other way...walls too thick to let loaded round fit in standard/small side chamber......on fired and not sized brass as yours might be you want it to drop the bullet in the fired unsized case.....get back with more details if resizing doesn't work....good luck and good shooting and loading!!

09 April 2003, 18:28

Leftoverdj

Hunter,

Try removing the decapping rod/expander ball assembly and size a couple like that. Then try seating a bullet. An oversized expander ball is one of the things that can be causing your problem.

10 April 2003, 06:54

<Hunter333>

Thanks for the help! I figured out that when I was depriming, I was only going down far enough to pop out the primer, not far enough to resize the neck. After a search here to find out how to get out hot primers in unloaded brass, I took the 30 or so rounds to the range and shot thr primers out. Seemed to be the safest way to go about. Thanks again!!

10 April 2003, 15:26

stocker

Hunter333; With most dies you can remove the primer punch by unscrewing the expander button. Replace the button without the pin punch. You can then do your belated neck sizing without pushing the new primers out. By the way I've removed a lot of unfired primers with the dies used in the normal manner and never had one discharge. Just do it slow and smooth. Sounds like you need to thoroughly read the introductory sections that most good reloading manuals have. Lots of good info therein.
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