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Finding no indication otherwise, I conclude that I got two bad primers in a row, no matter how unlikely....thanks everyone for making sure I checked everything.

Sounds like your sizing die is to big. If so, different brass is not going to cure your problem.

Eleven inch and up Logans have a much bigger spindle bore than an Atlas. I have used 6" and 10" Atlases and they did all I needed. But now I have an 11" Logan with a quick-change gear box and like it...

Larry, the packaging was and is in good shape. I always handle the primers because I don't have any mechanical primer feed. My hands are clean and dry when loading, but I can't rule out...

Assumptions can go astray. The temperature was unseasonably high--about 75. I had said above that the firing pin strikes were good. As a matter of fact, I had disassembled the bolt, which I found to...

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Here is a picture of the two suspect primers and one (on the right) that functioned properly. The one on the right has quite a lot of residue. The others look slightly sooted. What do you all...

Yes, the primers failed to light the powder the first try. Firing pin strike was good, too.

I've used half of that tray of primers with no other ftf.

Maybe those two primers were bad. If they...

Federal LR primers. Highly improbable to get 2 bad ones in a row and no other bad ones.

I've been using IMR4756 for cast bullets for a long time, though I don't shoot anywhere as much as some of you. Today I was using 9 grains behind a 175g pb bullet trying to settle on an accuracy...

I've been using it for more than 40 years in .30-06. Recently started using it in 7.65x53mm (10g, 175g cast bullet) and .25-20 WCF.

Have had no issues.

All good observations above. I'll add that if you are drilling Mausers or other case hardened receivers, read up on the subject before you turn on the drill.

I hope you don't do that. After the photobucket betrayal, I don't trust any hosting site. What's more some sites put a watermark that shows up when the image is displayed. Upload them here and...

I guess I should admit that I was a machinist for 10 years in two production shops, and all my experience there was on manual machines, both hand fed and mechanically fed. And, I have had and used...

And while you are setting up that program, I have made the part on my Logan.

Why would a gunsmith EVER need a CNC lathe or one that can't be hauled in a pickup? We're not making artillery.

I learned on manual machines and that's all I've owned. Nearly all my jobs are one-offs and no one has convinced me that they can program a project, set it up, and make it faster than I can just do...

You should be going by the feed chart, not the threading chart to set your feed. (I hope you are not engaging the half-nuts for longitudinal feed!) I use .007" for roughing cuts and what ever works...

If you shoot them, preserve the smoke and sell me a bottle--sweetest cologne ever concocted!

I made a transition die from a bolt. It just starts the reduction toward .257 for about 3/16". Then I run them through the full length .25-20 sizing die. I only lube the case body lightly--no lube on...

I've never used dacron filler or any other with reduced loads, so I have no experience.

But I have always wondered if burned/melted dacron leaves any residue. I suspect it does not leave anything...

For prepping, I always think the relative availability of brass and amount of powder used are major factors. It seems foolish to depend on a cartridge that is rare in the best of times.

Never liked or trusted those Savage hammerless designs. I've seen what a puny safety mechanism is inside. About as safe as lying down to look up and inspect the edge of a guillotine.

Just a little unasked-for perspective:

With the plastic wad/shot sleeves of today, honing the bore will not do anything to improve your pattern. It will only make the barrel easier to clean, which...

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