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A person can learn lessons the hard way or the easy way. Well I have now learned a reloading lesson the hard way. I will share my learning experience so other noobs might learn the lesson the easy way.
If you haven't, you should read my post titled _&)&*(^^%^*%$#$(*((__(&$ or something to that effect! This afternoon I got the case unstuck from the die. I was happy with that. Although I looked inside the die and there was some very nasty galling. So I decided to size a case and see how things went. Well as you can imagine the case came out with big scratches in it. Well isn't that dandy! So it's obvious I won't be sizing any more cases.
My next plan is to check case length and get the primer pockets cleaned up on the brass that I sized before the case got stuck. So now I'm starting to look at cases and I'm seeing big long scratches in them. Long story short, I scrapped about 80% of a Folgers coffee can worth of .223 brass. Apparently sometime during my resizing the die got contaminated with something and it galled the inside of the die and of course ruined the cases.
The lesson I learned was to check things more frequently as I'm working through a large quantity, as I tend to do. Don't just slam away at them and expect everything to be ok. Had I checked along the way I would have seen the scratches and stopped to investigate. And that investigation might very well have prevented the stuck case too.
So there it is, my hard lesson learned for the weekend. Oh, of course I'm out the cost of a new die too, if I can find one.
If you haven't, you should read my post titled _&)&*(^^%^*%$#$(*((__(&$ or something to that effect! This afternoon I got the case unstuck from the die. I was happy with that. Although I looked inside the die and there was some very nasty galling. So I decided to size a case and see how things went. Well as you can imagine the case came out with big scratches in it. Well isn't that dandy! So it's obvious I won't be sizing any more cases.
My next plan is to check case length and get the primer pockets cleaned up on the brass that I sized before the case got stuck. So now I'm starting to look at cases and I'm seeing big long scratches in them. Long story short, I scrapped about 80% of a Folgers coffee can worth of .223 brass. Apparently sometime during my resizing the die got contaminated with something and it galled the inside of the die and of course ruined the cases.
The lesson I learned was to check things more frequently as I'm working through a large quantity, as I tend to do. Don't just slam away at them and expect everything to be ok. Had I checked along the way I would have seen the scratches and stopped to investigate. And that investigation might very well have prevented the stuck case too.
So there it is, my hard lesson learned for the weekend. Oh, of course I'm out the cost of a new die too, if I can find one.