Reloading: setting up the dies

[243win]

Elmer
glad you are getting sorted, good news then,

the lube is pushed down from the neck and sqeezed up the body and collects in the gap which is above the shoulder, which is hydraliced and this causes the case shoulder to collapse, it should be in the ABC's i did have one in the 80's,( but my memory ain't that good)

Mat,
you should have known better than using fire formed cases in different rifles that have only been neck sized, it will lead to trouble in fitting the chamber, as for your friends custom tight actions are for experienced reloaders wishing to push for the ultimate, so trying someone else's ammo or even factory would lead to allsorts of trouble, that is why the round could not be chambered, because it was even tighter, you can only imagine how lucky he was in not firing the round.

any way deer stalking doesn't need this level of reloading, i only do it for fun( and have to for the ultra mag) and is more at home on the benchrest type forums

steve

 

[Mat]

Mat,
you should have known better than using fire formed cases in different rifles that have only been neck sized, it will lead to trouble in fitting the chamber, as for your friends custom tight actions are for experienced reloaders wishing to push for the ultimate, so trying someone else's ammo or even factory would lead to allsorts of trouble, that is why the round could not be chambered, because it was even tighter, you can only imagine how lucky he was in not firing the round.

steve

Steve,

Yes, absolutely right, it was a cock-up on my part, I should have been more careful. Similarly, the chaps trying out the ammo should also have been more careful too. May it serve as a cautionary tale - never use anyone else's ammo or be very careful, in both cases, no one got hurt.

(Yet another story to illustrate the point!) Fred (NRA armourer) showed me the remains of an Enfield actioned rifle, where the chap borrowed ammo that was normally fired in a much stronger action. If I remember correctly, apparently the ammo belonged to a long range pistol shooter, the firer came out unscathed as the Enfield action blows out away from
the firer, the long range pistol shooter ended up with shrapnel as he was sitting alongside in a 'flying machine'.

And before anyone accuses me of talking bo***cks, then no, in this case, I never saw the incident, nor do I know any of the people involved, so I can't vouch for the veracity of the story.

Anyway, I'm on holiday from tomorrow, so I won't be around to annoy anyone with stories that go like "and this one time, at Bisley camp... I shoved a barrel up my a*se because I was that an**ly retentive and full of sh*t"...

 

[243win]

mat
i use bisley frequently, so i know fred and co, people forget that enfield's are 7.62 and not 308win so this is where the trouble lies which can often be club shooters, who only use a club weapon or own one rifle for years but do not have any actual experince of other calibres,

steve