I've been a reloader for more years than I can count, and thought I had seen just about everything, but I guess not.
When I am done shooting, I throw all my brass, of the same caliber, into a bucket. When it gets to the point that I need to reload, I dump the bucket into a tumbler and clean it all off. From there I deprime / FL size, trim, chamfer etc into the tumbler again for a final cleaning to get the lube off. When finished I sort by head stamp and place into plastic bags labled with the head stamp and the letters RFL (ready for load) on the bag.
Today I picked up a bag of Winchester head stamp, primed and charged the cases, then started to seat the bullets. I felt as though there was zero resistance, absolutely minimal neck tension. I never had that happen before. The cases were FL sized because they were all deprimed and cleaned etc.
I figure I can shoot these as long as it's one at a time (I don't want to unload everything). The seating depth is fine. They'll only have a lot less neck tension than I'm used to.
So - anyone ever had this happen to them, whereby they FL sized yet the neck tension was "loose"? Almost as though they were never sized? Also, I don't see anything dangerous because if anything the pressure will be less. Does this rational make sense?
I'd appreciate your input as to what may have happened and what you think about shooting them - loaded one at a time (I don't want the recoil moving the bullets remaining in the magazine out past where I seat them to).
Thanks all....
When I am done shooting, I throw all my brass, of the same caliber, into a bucket. When it gets to the point that I need to reload, I dump the bucket into a tumbler and clean it all off. From there I deprime / FL size, trim, chamfer etc into the tumbler again for a final cleaning to get the lube off. When finished I sort by head stamp and place into plastic bags labled with the head stamp and the letters RFL (ready for load) on the bag.
Today I picked up a bag of Winchester head stamp, primed and charged the cases, then started to seat the bullets. I felt as though there was zero resistance, absolutely minimal neck tension. I never had that happen before. The cases were FL sized because they were all deprimed and cleaned etc.
I figure I can shoot these as long as it's one at a time (I don't want to unload everything). The seating depth is fine. They'll only have a lot less neck tension than I'm used to.
So - anyone ever had this happen to them, whereby they FL sized yet the neck tension was "loose"? Almost as though they were never sized? Also, I don't see anything dangerous because if anything the pressure will be less. Does this rational make sense?
I'd appreciate your input as to what may have happened and what you think about shooting them - loaded one at a time (I don't want the recoil moving the bullets remaining in the magazine out past where I seat them to).
Thanks all....