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Offline kenscot

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Hard bolt lift with 25 wssm
« on: February 01, 2006, 05:30:00 PM »
I recently picked up a browning a bolt in 25 wsm. I bought a box of factory ammo and shot it flalessly aveage groups just under MOA. But 31.00 a box yikes! I picked up some new brass and worked up a load of 42.5 grn. of varget , accurate load averages .5 MOA.
Here comes the problem when I ran out of the new brass I resized the brass and trimmed and reloadec with the same load. While it still shot acurately I had hard bolt lift on extraction I tryied a differant load and got the same results. I pulled the bullets to check my powder charge, no problem there. I went back and loaded a few rounds with  new brass and had no problem . What could I be doing wrong. I checked my dhamber it was clean. I tooka look at my sizing die and noticed a spot on the shouolder area at first I thought it was some rust but it wipeout right away as it was a flattened pice of walnut tumbling media could this have caused my problem?

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Hard bolt lift with 25 wssm
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2006, 03:10:57 AM »
See the responses you got in your other, identical thread.  No reason to double post here....

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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2006, 02:02:57 PM »
I generally don't double post but I have noticed that some guys seem do seem to spend more time in the forums that interest them or have more expertise in. I figured here I would here from guys that would would critque my problem as somethig I am doing wrong with my reloading procedure.

   I did notice that some of the loaded rounds were little tougher to chamber. I am starting to believe that I did not set the shoulder back far enough even though I did the standard turn the die down an 1/8 turn after contact with the shell holder. I have always been more worried about oversizing the cases