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WOW. That's a lot of good info, guys. THANK YOU ALL for your responses. Roughly in order of appearance: 1) Yes, I should get a case gauge. right now, I'm just using a caliper for oal brass and oal cartridge lengths. Seemed adequate, but in retrospect, gives me no information about the shoulder or ri...

these look like good suggestions, but the Wilson gauge doesn't mention case diameter, just length, which I feel comfortable with...is adjusting my FL die an option? I set it up per instructions, as best I could, is it possible it just needs to be turned-in a little more to get a hair "more"...

I think you may have found the culprit... I took the firing pin and firing pin spring out of the bolt housing, so that I could cycle rounds more freely, and more-safely test the cycling of my reloads vs. new factory rounds. The new factory loads fell through the chamber/bolt turning process with eas...

I marked just the rim and the shoulder. All cases were FL sized. The Lyman T-Mag press was set to "cam over" on the FL sizing die

UH OH! I made up (4) dummy rounds (prepped brass w/bullet, no powder or primer)...and (3) of these chamber VERY hard in the rifle. They feed OK, and the OAL is correct (2.25" or shorter), but the bolt handle turns VERY hard. I tried painting the cases with a sharpie marker, to look for possible...

Thanks for the tips, guys. I've started loading rounds from the Lyman #49 manual data for 40gr vmax bullets, starting at base and on up to max, in .2 grain increments. I figure this will total (80) rounds total, with (2) 5-shot groups at each of the (8) steps in powder charge. Complicated, eh? It'll...

Hey Guys-- Figured you could help me out. I'm putting together some first-time-out starting loads for my .204. I'm new to reloading. I'd like to use the SBK 39gr pills with the H335 powder that the guy at the store sold me. I've been doing some reading, looks like these are good components. The prob...

Silly question here...forgive me, I am very new. I've been looking at the Redding S-dies....how do you know which bushing set to buy to go along with the die?

sounds like time for some upgradin'.....well, you know where to find me!

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Hey Guys-- First time reloader here. I have quite a bit of catching up to do. Please message me if you have any of the following gear for sale/swap, or anything else similar/relevant. I'm starting from scratch (well, I do have few boxes of hornady once-fireds on hand), so feel free to email me your ...

I'll take these if you still got 'em...?


--Mike