Just a few days ago, we were shooting at Quemado and Mike wanted to shoot my rifle. Out of 5 shots one was hard to extract and the others showed a little bright spot on the case head. Only difference in those loads and what I have been using for years was the bullets were from a new box. I only loaded a few from that box and they are separated, so I know which to pull and use a little less powder. Same kind of bullet just a different batch. I knew I was close to the edge as I had already backed the load down a little because of loose primer pockets after the 5th loading. It is a 7mm08 improved and this is the first time that I had hard extraction except when the sand got in the barrel, mentioned above. miles
