As I said, no pressure signs, none, primers are still round on the edges. A tech at sierra once told me that when using fed215 primers, due to the soft cups of them, do not assume its high pressure if a flat fed. 215 is all you see. wait till you see one more sign such as ejector marks, heavy...
prrobably the expander ball causing it, run a case into the sizer, loosen the lock nuts to the decapping rod, back the ram off till the expander ball makes contact, pull down on the ram till it makes firm contact, then tighten the lock nut. see if that helps.
working with a 338 Edge, the data I have found is a max load for a 300 hornady A-tip is 90 gr. of H1000 for 2846 fps. am now at 2823 with 92 gr. H1000. running fed. 215's and they are not starting to flatten, no casehead expansion. do I go up a grain? going to anyways probably but want your...
if you have runout problems, try seating the bullet in steps, start the bullet, back the ram off spin the case 60 degrees, seat it a bit more spin the case, then finish seating.
Fire a shot and miss, it happens, but the next round, loaded with the same die settings won't fire? do you really load your own? 2 weeks ago you struggled fireforming, now you know all things rifles and reloading? Sorry to the board but man!
well after readjusting 250 yard zero, the thing now is tracking very well. have ran it out to 600, 800, and 1100 yards. making first round hits on steel plates and rocks. this is on a 6mm ARC. took 38 moa to make 1100
Back in the early 80's, when a fast car and a GF were higher priorities than ammo, and wallet was pretty thin, was buying paks of 100 for 1.29, never thought about stocking up. But that 69 charger was cool!