I am back to the fountain of knowledge to be told what I am doing wrong again
Bought a Lee 6 position 55 grain 223 mold for loading for my AR. I cast up a couple thousand bullets, powder coated with Smokes Carolina Blue
I seem to have pretty good adhesion as when I smash them, the powder predominately still sticks
I ran the cast and powder coated bullets thru a 0.224 sizer, and didnt plan on using a gas check. Do I need to run them thru a 0.223, I went a thousands over thinking it would get me a bit more velocity, I suspect this is my issue, I size my 9 mm a thousands over and it works fine. Maybe this slight oversizing doesnt work in the 223/5.56 casings?????
When I seat the bullet in the casing, the brass cuts up under the powder and gets a piece of the lead and powder on the outside of the casing neck. I loaded a handful to go shoot, they look like this
I tried to see if they would feed in the AR and they wont as I suspected. I take the time and effort to clean the necks off and they still wont load in the rifle into full battery. The bolt carrier is about 1/4 inch short of getting into the firing position.
I clean the lead ring and powder off the neck, (which is a time consuming thing), they still wont feed into the gun. I try to seat the bullets deeper into the casings
And they still dont feed.
I am a bit confused, I took a handful of the casings I have prepped and seat a factory bullet, and they cycle thru the gun just fine. What did I do wrong with these bullets I cast and coated and now wont go in the casings clean, and wont cycle thru the gun. I suspect I need to run them thru a smaller sizer, but before I expend a bunch of effort, I thought I could get some opinions. Thanks