Thread: New to reloading and have some questions

Originally Posted by Stefanhope

Hey guys,

Just started to learn to reload. Thought it was a good idea since I have nothing to do for awhile.

I’m shooting a tikka 7mm rem mag, I’ve been successfully shooting 139gr sst through her and have been keeping the brass to eventually reuse one day.

I brought the hornady classic kit and set it up today. Everything is going smoothly apart from I’m abit confused as why my nosler 7mm rem mag bullets wont fit my resized cartridge? I also found that the resizing die had trouble fitting through the neck of the cartridge? Could anyone help a newbie out here?

Cheers

Are you having trouble with cases going into the die or coming out of the die? If it's going in, it won't be the decapping/sizing mandrel giving resistance, it'll be too little lube on the neck or body coupled with new dies having no residual lube in them.
If you say your projectiles don't fit, but haven't tried seating them with your seating die, they shouldn't fit by hand. If they do fit by hand after sizing you have a big problem- no neck tension.