I bought some norma brass and used 120gr sierra hpbt. Using IMR4895 and used range of weights frm 33.0 to 34.5 gr.
After each case was extracted it had a slight but noticeable bulge near the head of the cartridge. My COAL was 2.800 and trimmed to 1.975.
I got home and resized them fully with my lee dies. It cleaned them up nicely from the exterior point of view. I am going to reload one this afternoon and see if they have any problems and then full then resize again. Has anyone had any problems in this area with the arisaka model 38.
Also i am using the rcbs guide and it says coal should be 2.800 while the literature in my lee dies says minimum is 2.920. Wonder why such a difference in opinion??? Any feed back on this would be greatly appreciated.
ohhh, one more - is there a tool to adjust the front site. or do you just juse a brass punch and keep tapping on it - gosh hope not as that is not easy. thanks in advance.
After each case was extracted it had a slight but noticeable bulge near the head of the cartridge. My COAL was 2.800 and trimmed to 1.975.
I got home and resized them fully with my lee dies. It cleaned them up nicely from the exterior point of view. I am going to reload one this afternoon and see if they have any problems and then full then resize again. Has anyone had any problems in this area with the arisaka model 38.
Also i am using the rcbs guide and it says coal should be 2.800 while the literature in my lee dies says minimum is 2.920. Wonder why such a difference in opinion??? Any feed back on this would be greatly appreciated.
ohhh, one more - is there a tool to adjust the front site. or do you just juse a brass punch and keep tapping on it - gosh hope not as that is not easy. thanks in advance.