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Are the cases all previously fired in the same rifle? Normally a fired case will chamber back in the same rifle easily and get tight if it has been neck sized alone for several firings, then needing...

Would be nice but hey thats the barrel its got. I mentioned in an earlier post that it had been a 7x57, then re-barreled to 270 (with a fluted Weatherby barrel) before I was given it. The action is...

Thats a funny typo Padox - Buying your ammo from Mandy the Whore ?

That bit about the origin of headspace dimensions for 270 is very interesting - and the wide variation possible, esp considering it is a 65000psi max case. Certainly the Xbolt fired cases I was given...

It is odd, but at least this thread came up at the right time to help

So you are suggesting that it is actually variation in shell holders that are giving us trouble with reloads just as much as anything else ?

I was given some ( 100 ish ) once fired factory cases - 270 Rem Corelokt that had been fired in an Xbolt. Those cases appeared to have a slight blown forward bulge between the shoulder and the start...

The cases must be getting sized too much, and maybe the batch that got the mag primers were previously fired more than the std primer batch or just got sized more ?. I have a Rem 270 and a BSA CF2...

Could you put up some pictures of the marked cases before and after please