Didn't you say that you were using the Hornady dies? I use the same ones, and don't have that issue. Could you have a defective sizing die?
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Didn't you say that you were using the Hornady dies? I use the same ones, and don't have that issue. Could you have a defective sizing die?
You chopped them off with a cheapo chop saw and didn't be burr or chamfer them? I'm sure that's a part of the problem.Yes sir I am. One thing I didn't do is deburr and chamfer. But my habor freight saw 2" made a pretty clean cut that I thought I wouldn't need to. I lubed it up and it sized fine. Could it be that I cut the brass too long? I don't have anymore brass but I will pull one of my reload and form another case and see where it's flaring the mouth. I had thought it did that on purpose to allow the bullet base to seat.
You chopped them off with a cheapo chop saw and didn't be burr or chamfer them? I'm sure that's a part of the problem.
After watching some YouTube video. Everyone removed the decapping needle... I'm thinking when I cut the brass and sized it, the brass was too long and hit the decapping rod and causing it to flare.... I did not remove my decapping stem.
When you ran the unprocessed .223 through the .300blk die you didn't remove the decapping pin on the .300blk die?
No sir. Was I suppose to? I thought it was just a straight rod. Now that I looked at the parts, it's not a straight rod lol. I just retracted it all the way up into the die so it doesn't decap.