After leaving the last Gonzalas gunshow I went to Cabelas and picked up a .308 Win Hornady case gage so I could start sizing brass and begin making test loads for the rifle I am building. I was having fits because I could not get any shells to fully drop in but they would chamber in my Mossberg Patriot . It had me thinking I was somehow not setting up my die properly or I was doing something else wrong. I ended up cleaning my die twice as well as the case gage. A factory Remington round would drop in no problem, but not my resized brass.
I ended up loading a few things in the car and drove to Action Shooting Supply after checking to see that he was open. My resized brass that would not fully seat in the Hornady gage and would be slightly stuck dropped right in and out of a Dillion as well as a L.E. Wilson case gage. Ended up buying the Dillion gage and the Hornady will be going back to Cabelas. I will tell them it is out of spec but don't know if that will keep it from being put back on the shelf.
*die used is Lee FL sizing/decapping
Is this a one in a million bad one I ended up with or have others had a similar experiance.
I ended up loading a few things in the car and drove to Action Shooting Supply after checking to see that he was open. My resized brass that would not fully seat in the Hornady gage and would be slightly stuck dropped right in and out of a Dillion as well as a L.E. Wilson case gage. Ended up buying the Dillion gage and the Hornady will be going back to Cabelas. I will tell them it is out of spec but don't know if that will keep it from being put back on the shelf.
*die used is Lee FL sizing/decapping
Is this a one in a million bad one I ended up with or have others had a similar experiance.
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