This is wisdom and it is so scarce in today’s world:
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In all likelihood, you're pushing the shoulder back much too far when you full-length size.
The generic "instructions" that come with most die sets are worse than worthless. They tell you how to make a case that's one size into a case that's an absolute minimum size but they don't do a thing for the 99.95% of factory guns that are not that minimum size.
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These ledges are the difference between Go (bottom ledge) and No Go (top ledge). That is not much and you won’t get inbetween there by following the die instructions of letting the die touch the shellholder plus a quarter turn. Unless you are lucky. Sometimes luck happens.
This is what you need to properly set up your dies, a gage:
