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December 29, 2012, 08:45 PM
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Warped brass
Started reloading with Hornady New Dimension Die set. Forst time for rifle rounds. The seater die started doing this randomly. It's once fired military brass. I was crimping but backed off that but still does it. Any ideas on the cause?
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December 29, 2012, 08:50 PM
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Your seater die is doing that randomly?
Either you didn't trim the brass uniformly and the seater die is impacting the extra brass... Or, your seater die is also a seater/crimp die and you are randomly bottoming out on an improperly adjusted die. My money is on the second option. Jimro
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December 29, 2012, 08:54 PM
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Thanks. Probably a little of both. I will start with readjusting the die.
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December 29, 2012, 08:58 PM
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probably just the camera angle but those don't even look to be the same cases and bullets and the shoulder looks like it is curved
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December 29, 2012, 08:58 PM
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To keep a seater/crimp die from crimping, use a nickel as a spacer. Put the ram in the up position, screw the die down to the nickel. That works with the Lee dies I've used.
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December 30, 2012, 09:58 AM
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hounddawg, it's just the angle. jimro: I took the die apart, out it back together and set it for no crimp. This seems to have fixed the problem, thanks again
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