stagpanther
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I screwed up and wish I was as smart as the rest of you.
Yesterday I took out my 270 win build I did a while ago and decided it was time to put some cartridges through it--on the menu were 150 gr interbonds driven by Ramshot magnum. I had problems immediately, stiff cartridge chamberings with difficulty closing the bolt and a few FTF due to the primers not ignited, despite what looked like solid hits from the firing pin.
I thought at the time the problem was either a headspace problem or possibly a problem with the Genix primers, they do have issues pop up every now and then on some rifles I use them with. Long story short, I ended up taking the entire rifle apart, including complete disassembly of the bolt, cleaning and reassembling everything. Things went really sideways when the chambering and firing issues did not go away--that's when the lightbulb went on and I decided to swap bolts with another 30-06 based build--same problems. Even tried a factory-built 270 win--same thing, no go. That's when I finally started taking a closer look at my reloading gear, and upon taking my sizing die apart, found this:
Replaced it with a spare stem and magically the problems disappeared--chambered like greased lightening and no problem touching off the primers. I'm not exactly sure what the crooked stem was actually doing to the sized brass--I assume it imparted an asymmetry somewhere that really had profound consequences.
Yesterday I took out my 270 win build I did a while ago and decided it was time to put some cartridges through it--on the menu were 150 gr interbonds driven by Ramshot magnum. I had problems immediately, stiff cartridge chamberings with difficulty closing the bolt and a few FTF due to the primers not ignited, despite what looked like solid hits from the firing pin.
I thought at the time the problem was either a headspace problem or possibly a problem with the Genix primers, they do have issues pop up every now and then on some rifles I use them with. Long story short, I ended up taking the entire rifle apart, including complete disassembly of the bolt, cleaning and reassembling everything. Things went really sideways when the chambering and firing issues did not go away--that's when the lightbulb went on and I decided to swap bolts with another 30-06 based build--same problems. Even tried a factory-built 270 win--same thing, no go. That's when I finally started taking a closer look at my reloading gear, and upon taking my sizing die apart, found this:
Replaced it with a spare stem and magically the problems disappeared--chambered like greased lightening and no problem touching off the primers. I'm not exactly sure what the crooked stem was actually doing to the sized brass--I assume it imparted an asymmetry somewhere that really had profound consequences.
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