Ok, so I managed to get my hands on a Hornady Lock-N-Load AP Progressive Press. Got everything set up tonight and went to make a batch. Now I am just tired and frustrated.
Powder is going everywhere on my lever pulls, no matter how careful I am. The powder is gumming up the works something fierce. The main problem is when it gets into the primer slider and it can't bring the primer all the way under the shell plate. It's also a pain when it gets in around the rim and the casing does not want to go under the resize die straight. Using N340.
Had one other major malfunction tonight, My Hornady seating die had the collet and seating stem pulled out of the bottom of the die, twice. putting a taper crimp on to hold plated bullets and take out the case mouth flare. never did this in my rock chucker.
Also, I found that EVERYTHING runs better without the sizing die in. It adds a ton of resistance. Have the lee factory carbide. Toying with the idea of resizing before putting them in the press...
Also, I had to run a bunch of bullets back through the seating/crimp die to redo the taper crimp as they would not drop in my EGW Cartridge gauge. probably half of the 130 or so that I loaded. I'm guessing I was short stroking the ram? This seems to take a LOT more leverage than my rock chucker.
Any tips, tricks or vids I can watch would be much appreciated. I watched a bunch of setup, assembly, and running vids, non seemed to show these problems...
Powder is going everywhere on my lever pulls, no matter how careful I am. The powder is gumming up the works something fierce. The main problem is when it gets into the primer slider and it can't bring the primer all the way under the shell plate. It's also a pain when it gets in around the rim and the casing does not want to go under the resize die straight. Using N340.
Had one other major malfunction tonight, My Hornady seating die had the collet and seating stem pulled out of the bottom of the die, twice. putting a taper crimp on to hold plated bullets and take out the case mouth flare. never did this in my rock chucker.
Also, I found that EVERYTHING runs better without the sizing die in. It adds a ton of resistance. Have the lee factory carbide. Toying with the idea of resizing before putting them in the press...
Also, I had to run a bunch of bullets back through the seating/crimp die to redo the taper crimp as they would not drop in my EGW Cartridge gauge. probably half of the 130 or so that I loaded. I'm guessing I was short stroking the ram? This seems to take a LOT more leverage than my rock chucker.
Any tips, tricks or vids I can watch would be much appreciated. I watched a bunch of setup, assembly, and running vids, non seemed to show these problems...
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