6.5 grendel reloading problem

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e-man

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I sure hope one of the reloading gurus on this site can lend a helping hand. I recently acquired a 6.5 grendel and began to reload for it and have been having one problem after another. I am using a lee press with hornady dies. The problem this time is with once fired brass. When I try to reload once or twice fired brass it wont fit in my chamber gauge. When I size and trim the brass it fits in the gauge perfectly. When I press a bullet into the case is when the problem begins. For some reason when I press the bullet ( to the correct OAL) it is expanding by .002 where the shoulder meets the body of the case which is preventing the round from fitting into the gauge much less the chamber. I found this by coloring the entire case with a permanent marker and forcing the round in and then out of the gauge then looking for where the marker had rubbed off. On a side note all of this testing was done with a case not loaded with powder or primer. My sizing die is adjusted all the way down so I dont know if I have a defective die of if it is a problem with this caliber. I do know I am at whits end..... Never had anything close to this with other calibers..

Thanks for any input you all may have...
 
Originally Posted By: Jack RobertsYou could posibly have the seating die screwed down too far?

Jack

I backed the die out a little bit more and that did it! Thanks for getting me straight. I had already tried it but I did not back it out enough. When you made your post it made me revisit the idea.... Thanks!
 
When you set your seating die up you need to put a case in the shell holder and raise it to the top, then screw your seating die in until it touch's the casing then back it out a 1/4 to 1/2 turn and that is were you set/lock the lock ring and leave it set there... then back the seating stem out to were you know it will not seat the bullet your using to deep then start screwing it in until you get the lenght you want then lock it in place. this will help with brass that is not all trimmed to the same length and keep from pushing the neck into the shoulder when seating bullets, another thing that helps when seating bullets is using a VLD chamger tool on the inside of the necks when deburring them. flat base bullets can sometimes be harder to get started in the necks..
 
Originally Posted By: reddog964When you set your seating die up you need to put a case in the shell holder and raise it to the top, then screw your seating die in until it touch's the casing then back it out a 1/4 to 1/2 turn and that is were you set/lock the lock ring and leave it set there... then back the seating stem out to were you know it will not seat the bullet your using to deep then start screwing it in until you get the lenght you want then lock it in place. this will help with brass that is not all trimmed to the same length and keep from pushing the neck into the shoulder when seating bullets, another thing that helps when seating bullets is using a VLD chamger tool on the inside of the necks when deburring them. flat base bullets can sometimes be harder to get started in the necks..

I learned all of the above the hard way with a few crushed cases to prove it. Good advice. Backing the sizing die out definitely fixed my problem. I just loaded 80 rounds and had only 2 cases that did not fit in my gauge.
 


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