reloads hard to remove

remy_vtr

remy_vtr

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I have been reloading for about 30 years and never had any problems with any of my reloads. I bought a Remington R15 last year decided to reload for coyote hunting. I am using 25.6 grains of Benchmark, CCI 400 primers with a 55 grain vmax. Accuracy is excellent, under a 1/2 inch at 100 yards for 5 rounds. Then comes the problem, during hunting season I loaded the R15 went to a stand, no takers. When I got back to my vehicle, I tried to unload the loaded round. I could not move the charging handle to unload the gun. The R15 has never jammed when fired with reloads, I full length size every round, I have trimmed every case to factory specs and OAL is factory length as well. I have tried RCBS regular and Small Base dies. Any suggestions???
 
Does it do the same with factory loads? Years ago I had the same problem with my Colt AR. I never did anything to fix it, but over the years it quit doing that. I really don't know what causes that, but none of my others ever did it. Will be interested to hear what others have to say. The only thing I can think of is breaking in the bolt locking lugs and camming surfaces.
 
The factory rounds come out real easy, no problem there. I clean the chamber after every outing and have checked with bore light, looks clean.
 
We had that problem with my buddies first lot of reloads. He had to set the die to bump the shoulder back about another .003" and the problem was solved.

They functioned fine, just tight if you tried to eject unfired rounds. You don't have any mechanical advantage, so any "crush" turns into a stuck bolt.
 
Originally Posted By: Evil_LurkerWe had that problem with my buddies first lot of reloads. He had to set the die to bump the shoulder back about another .003" and the problem was solved.

They functioned fine, just tight if you tried to eject unfired rounds. You don't have any mechanical advantage, so any "crush" turns into a stuck bolt.

+1 for the Evil One. Well said.

Keep adjusting the sizing die into the press in 1/8 turn increments until you can easily eject a sized case. Don't over do it or you risk excess headspace problems. Use a different sized case each time as your getting the die setup. Using a small base die won't help if the headspace clearance is too tight. It is best if you have a dedicated FL sizing die setup for your AR.

It is also possible to pull up the necks with the expander ball if you don't lube the inside of the necks properly. If you notice the expander ball is hard to lift through the case neck during sizing it could cause the same problem.
 
Yep. We troubleshot it by blackening a case with a Sharpee, chambering it and ejecting it, and looking at the "rub marks"

Front of the shoulder was showing us the interference point.

You may want to try that before you take my word for it.
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It sounds exactly like what we had, though.

Except we had about 200 of them.
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I have not had any problem shooting any factory loads in my R-15, .223.

I have been reloading Lake City, once fired brass and have some that would load but fail to fire and be very hard to extract from the chamber.
Therefore have started checking all cases in a Lyman case length headspace gage before priming to load.

About 100 out of 500 LC cases will not go all the way into the gage. Same with Hornady and other manufacturers cases.

This is after sizing with a Lyman die then went to a Dillon Small base die touching the shell holder - bumped twice for good measure. With a Dillon 550B.

The cases will go in the headspace gage from the neck end - to check for neck being oversize.

Some of these cases are just slightly oversized and can fit in the gage after polishing a minute amount off of base and rim.

Some cases just have oversize rims and might cycle in the gun, but will not go in the gage making them possibly unreliable to function.

Checking new in the box factory ammo from Hornady, Remington, Winchester and several others, I have found many rounds that will not go in the headspace gage completely but seem to fire and extract ok.

Should cases that will not go into the headspace gage just be discarded?
 
What shell holder are you using? Double check this. I once had a sizing problem because of different brand of shell holder (Herters). RCBS shell holder with a RCBS die solved the problem. You probably need to screw your die down a little more untill it cams over a little at the top of the stroke. Just screwing it down untill it touches is sometimes not enough, try just a tad more. If this does not cure the problem, you may have a under sized chamber and need a gunsmith.
 
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I tried a full length size RCBS die, instead of the small base dies. Set it to where it touched the shell holder backed off about half a turn, still couldn't get the round out. So i backed it up about another 1/4 turn set a bullet in the case (no primer) worked like a factory round. was able to remove the round by pulling on the charging handle, no hang up at all. Now I can reload and get ready for coyotes. I have a DPMS LR 308 that I load for as well, and never had these problems, glad it's resolved. Thanks again!!!!!
 
Guess I should have a given a little more description of my R15. I have a Nikon M223 3x12x40 600 BDC reticle scope with a rock rivers mount and I changed the factory trigger to a rock rivers 2 stage national match. The trigger change was a must.
My DPMS LR308 has a 24 inch stainless bull barrel, a Leopold 4.5 X 14x40 tactical, rock river scope mount and it also has a rock river 2 stage national match trigger.
 
Originally Posted By: Evil_LurkerWe had that problem with my buddies first lot of reloads. He had to set the die to bump the shoulder back about another .003" and the problem was solved.

They functioned fine, just tight if you tried to eject unfired rounds. You don't have any mechanical advantage, so ny "crush" turns into a stuck bolt.

+1 this was my problim too.
 


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