Originally Posted by
Winger Ed.
Years ago, I got 1,000, 7.62 once fired in a M-60, brass,
Yes, it's true what they say about their rather generous chambers,
and the brass from one being hard to resize that first time.
I was working full time, the kids running around, etc., etc...:
Over several days-I'd cleaned 'em, set up the single stage press,
and put in my new .308 FL sizer die, and chewed through them over a few evenings.
Over the next several evenings-
I cleaned primer pockets, polished, primed them all, charged a few hundred cases, seated a few dozen .
,,,,,Then!!,,, checked one in my M1A .... Ohhh, nooooo,,,,,,The bolt wouldn't close and lock.
Upon further inspection- I figured out, or more nearly they told me,
I hadn't run the sizer die down quite far enough.
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Last Summer, I was loading a bunch of 5.56 for the old 1977 issue rat gun.
Got everything going, and double checked the readings on my new, fancy, electronic scale.
I charged & seated a few hundred, then looked up, and thought there was way
too much powder left in the measure for having charged that many cases.
Got to checking some more, and realized the fancy new electronic scale had lied to me,
or I had it set on the wrong increments it thought it was supposed to measure.
After 'unloading' 250 5.56s, I was still mad at it, and went back to my old beam scale.