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Thanks.

I looked at my measuring device.....it has a hole in it in the base so that the primer cannot interfere with the measurement. I readjusted my sizing die and I am now getting 1 to 2 thou, sometimes 3, under what my chamber measures....don't know if that is an acceptable variation.....I would...

Do you have to turn the necks when you use bushing dies?

Thanks! .....Should I use an expander die after that?

Just wondering how most people lube cases before FL sizing. I measure the headspace of my cases before and after FL sizing. Lately, that figure is actually longer after FL sizing and I notice a lot of pull...especially when the ball comes back through the neck and so I am wondering if l am...

Dear Al, I read a response that you made regarding removing the firing pin from an older Sako. When I close the bolt, I have to push forward at the very end and I believe that it is the extractor which is stiff or dirty and so I would like to remove it and clean it up. So, how do you remove the...

It sounds like a die will not fix that.

Al, I think that I will set the cases back .002 and shoot again. Then I will use my CTOL guage and vary that a little and shoot again. Then I will work on speed with the same powder. In the past, I have never gotten big gains by changing powder types, but I have gotten big gains by changing...

I really don't know a lot about the rifle....bought it from a family friend and not sure that he knows either. It is a Sako Riihimaki 222 Rem with a tight neck chamber....says "244 NK" on the barrel. To date I have only loaded for factory rifles so I don't know anything about custom chambers. So...

How do companies that reload used brass make sure that it will work in all rifles?

Doesn't FL sizing take care of the fact that it was fired in a different rifle?

Thanks! I ask because I just bought a "tight neck" 222. I FL sized some cases that were once fired in a different rifle which should make the cases concentric on the outside. I then neck-turned the cases because I had to....the cases also had inconsistent neck thickness. I believe that the case...

If I neck-turn new brass and fire them in a very good chamber, shouldn't the fire-formed brass then be concentric (at least on the outside)?

I read that you want at least .002 clearance between your rifle's neck and the loaded round's neck. .244-.002 gives me .242. A 222 Rem bullet measures .224. Therefore, 2 times the neck thickness should be .242-.224=.018 which will give a neck thickness of .009. My full length sized cases measure...