gamestalker
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30+ years of reloading, and I finally stuck a case.
Last night I was setting up the resizing die for a .243, and during the process of adjusting for the desired shoulder bump, I managed to run that piece of brass dry. I felt it chatter once, then it just stopped dead. It stuck pretty good, but probably not as bad as it could have been if it had been a piece of unsized brass. Took me a good 15 minutes to get it free. I just took the expander out, then unthreaded the die, worked well. I had to polish the die afterward though, it was pretty badly galled with brass.
All in all, I guess I got lucky, cause I didn't have to resort to extreme measures, like buying a stuck case removal tool.
GS
Last night I was setting up the resizing die for a .243, and during the process of adjusting for the desired shoulder bump, I managed to run that piece of brass dry. I felt it chatter once, then it just stopped dead. It stuck pretty good, but probably not as bad as it could have been if it had been a piece of unsized brass. Took me a good 15 minutes to get it free. I just took the expander out, then unthreaded the die, worked well. I had to polish the die afterward though, it was pretty badly galled with brass.
All in all, I guess I got lucky, cause I didn't have to resort to extreme measures, like buying a stuck case removal tool.
GS