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    Quote Originally Posted by Sideshow View Post
    Ok 12 posts in and not been told off yet
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    I thought you were to busy to play with guns!!!!!

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    Measured them tonight and according to the hornady book they are in spec.
    Buggered if I know, they definitely won’t chamber.

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    Maybe bullet seated too long and hitting the lands before case is fully chambered?
    More likely a brass size issue though, e.g. chamber at the small end of normal specs, cases at the upper end.

    I would pull a bullet and see if the empty case chambers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mikee View Post
    I would suggest, in my humble opinion
    1. most likely the base will not be sized down enough assuming you are using regular dies not "small base" ones.
    2. Buy one of these JP Gase Guage If it fits in this it will fit in your AR
    Have you tried this yet?? The other thing is if the bullets are not seated deep enough that can cause issues too.

    if it shoots factory ammo without issue then its not the gun
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    Bullets not seated too long.
    Rifle chambers factory ammo fine.
    Tried a body die too, went through that fine.
    Measured all dimensions with verniers and compared to hornady book, all within spec.
    I have a small base die but when pushing a round in by hand it feels tight and I’m worried I will get a live round stuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robh500 View Post
    Bullets not seated too long.
    Rifle chambers factory ammo fine.
    Tried a body die too, went through that fine.
    Measured all dimensions with verniers and compared to hornady book, all within spec.
    I have a small base die but when pushing a round in by hand it feels tight and I’m worried I will get a live round stuck.
    Lube it and run it thru the die. It will be fine.


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    Run them through a FL bushing die with the bushing removed so it doesnt fuck with the neck tension
    270 is a harmonic divisor number[1]
    270 is the fourth number that is divisible by its average integer divisor[2]
    270 is a practical number, by the second definition
    The sum of the coprime counts for the first 29 integers is 270
    270 is a sparsely totient number, the largest integer with 72 as its totient
    Given 6 elements, there are 270 square permutations[3]
    10! has 270 divisors
    270 is the smallest positive integer that has divisors ending by digits 1, 2, …, 9.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robh500 View Post
    I have a small base die but when pushing a round in by hand it feels tight and I’m worried I will get a live round stuck.
    I reckon thats your answer tight there, case JP gauge will prove it for sure
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    body die, or FL bushing die and take out the bushing and decapper

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    They go through a rcbs body die and still don’t chamber.
    Waiting on Sheridan case gauge to show up, then I guess I’ll buy a small base body die, lucky I’m stubborn because I will have spent more on fixing the problem than the ammo was worth!!

 

 

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