molonlabe
Ultimate Member
My assumption is that if the shoulder needs a bump, I can do that with the loaded rounds, correct?
Thanks for the help, guys!
JoeR
I would not advise that.
My assumption is that if the shoulder needs a bump, I can do that with the loaded rounds, correct?
Thanks for the help, guys!
JoeR
I suggest that you pull the offending bullets before bumping back the shoulder or just let your friend shoot them out. Unlike a short round, those that you loaded won't give you excessive pressure issues.
Aside from pulling bullets with a kinetic puller, I consider manipulating a loaded round in a sizing die to be a risky process.
Thanks, John. I have no desire to take on that kind of risk. Of the 80 cases he brought over, 60 of them were RP, with 20 from PPU. We only reloaded 50, so still have 30 waiting to be roloaded. I can reset the die to bump the shoulder back a couple thousandths for the remaining unprimed cases, then re-size. Also, I can have him bring over the rifle this week and we can see how the re-sized cases chamber before we finish reloading them.
JoeR
I'm not sure if this info will help but I have resized both RP and PPU and the RP's felt like mashed potato's compared to the PPU's. I had to crank my sizing die all the way to the press's limit and the shoulder to base length of the PPU's were still over SAAMI max by .001. They were once fired cases but I think annealing would have helped immensely.
Hmmmm....interesting. When he fired them as factory-loaded rounds, he said there wasn't an issue with chambering or extracting.
JoeR