northdude wrote:I have some greek surplus 303 brass that I ran through my lee loader and then merrily went and primed about 10 of them then had a thought and tried pushing a projectile into them by hand to check neck tension and they basically dropped into the case. Annealing and resizing the unprimed ones and they are good. Do you think removing the decapping pin from my 30 cal neck sizer and running them through that will make them usable
northdude wrote:After annealing the unprimed brass and running through the lee loader neck tension is fine so I think its a case of hard brass. All the rounds were fired in the same rifle. I havnt gone as far as benchrest prep for an old lee enfield I know their limits. I just dont want the pills dropping into the cases. Ive got lee loaders for some of my other rifles 22h, 223, 243, 303, and a variant of the lee loader for 6.5x55 done side by side comparisons with press loaded ammo and for hunting accuracy i couldnt see any difference...
northdude wrote:After annealing the unprimed brass and running through the lee loader neck tension is fine so I think its a case of hard brass. All the rounds were fired in the same rifle. I havnt gone as far as benchrest prep for an old lee enfield I know their limits. I just dont want the pills dropping into the cases. Ive got lee loaders for some of my other rifles 22h, 223, 243, 303, and a variant of the lee loader for 6.5x55 done side by side comparisons with press loaded ammo and for hunting accuracy i couldnt see any difference...
northdude wrote:Ill anneal these ones once I've fired them as well. I don't want to waste the primers. Haven't loaded 303 before as the surplus stuff was cheap enough to plink with. Ive got some 2208 I can try in it
northdude wrote:is it because there's no shoulder
northdude wrote:oh so so some light loads would help? I only shoot at targets with my 3, so don't need to chase fps
Vince24 wrote:First time I did a neck size with the Lee Collet die, the bullets were still falling inside the case after the neck sizing, lol!
I had not realised that with the Lee collet die, you actually have to push quite hard on the lever of the press for the proper sizing to really happen.
Not as smooth and nice as with the neck sizers from RCBS or Redding.
northdude wrote:I have some greek surplus 303 brass that I ran through my lee loader and then merrily went and primed about 10 of them then had a thought and tried pushing a projectile into them by hand to check neck tension and they basically dropped into the case. Annealing and resizing the unprimed ones and they are good. Do you think removing the decapping pin from my 30 cal neck sizer and running them through that will make them usable