I just finished off a box of the Hornady ELD-X 178gr in .308, and I liked them so much I ordered another 100. But a weird thing happened with the first 20.
When I placed the bullet and set it in the press, I noticed that it was waaay too easy to pull, and the bullet was way too deep. I pulled it out of the press and grabbed it with my fingers and it came right out of the case!
I found that I could push it in and out easily. I checked the ten or so that I had already loaded, and a couple of them were also loose. I continued through twenty, and of those, 7 were too big to properly seat the bullet.
Various headstamps, some of the same that were loose were also seated properly!
Ideas? Is my sizing die screwy? (I used the RCBS full-length sizer on all of them). I am baffled. Should I pull the decapping pin and try again? Or are they bad brass?
Any thoughts are welcome.
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