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Sorry if this was addressed, I seen nothing in the search.
All right gentlemen, I have challenge which you may know how to fix, and I have not run into it before with any other brass. I have some current reloads with 7.62 x 51 LC, with some I started to process, and have run into an issue.
I used small base dies (both RCBS and Lee), but approximately 8% of the resized brass does not fit the Lyman case gauge (including after trimming to length). About the same % of previously loaded rounds were also confirmed to close hard/if it all on a bolt gun after failing the gauge.
I have read elsewhere that it is best to first run the brass through a .30-06 die, then back through the .308. Is this true? Or should I accept that M240's eat brass and just gauge each one prior to priming?
All right gentlemen, I have challenge which you may know how to fix, and I have not run into it before with any other brass. I have some current reloads with 7.62 x 51 LC, with some I started to process, and have run into an issue.
I used small base dies (both RCBS and Lee), but approximately 8% of the resized brass does not fit the Lyman case gauge (including after trimming to length). About the same % of previously loaded rounds were also confirmed to close hard/if it all on a bolt gun after failing the gauge.
I have read elsewhere that it is best to first run the brass through a .30-06 die, then back through the .308. Is this true? Or should I accept that M240's eat brass and just gauge each one prior to priming?