Nope. I got the fired 200 piece of brass and it has the primer in so it was not sized if fired one time. This is all Winchester brass. I deprimed and sized this brass. I went and checked the loaded round and its trimmed to correct length 1.750". I made up a dummy round when I first starting reloading last week and the OAL was about .005 less than my loads that I brought to the range. I put this dummy in the rifle and closed the bolt and it was slightly hard to close but not as hard as the loaded rounds I made up (this dummy round did not have a primer in it as I used this to test the seater etc.)
So from all indications maybe I should have went ahead and fired my rounds at the range? But I decided not to as it was hard to close the bolt and I have never had a bolt close this hard. Still trying to figure out what the heck is wrong.
Whats your definition of quality dies? I have the RCBS dies and would have thought they would be ok. All of my dies are RCBS.
Last edited by valad; 03/08/14.
