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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    OK. Good to know it works. I'll start another lower and work my way up. Thanks for the reply
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Yes and have been given the load data in this thread to start again with. 140 gr bullet max was 42gr and the 143 gr max was 41.3 gr. I'm asking about in theory, there is no doubt that I had over pressure, that horse has already been beat enough. My question on this is if someone with a...
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    1886 win clone at 847 yards.

    Yeah it was the end of the day and I was inn a hurry to clean everything up and head home. I'll throw some pictures of the rifle up late, and maybe grab some pics of the range next time I'm out there.
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    So me extending the bullet out of the case .025 and still being .090 off the rifling should decrease chamber pressure.
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Thank you all for the info
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Yeah I got some up to date load data to try this time. I'll be starting on the low end and work my way up, and maybe try a different powder
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    That's the plan. Thanks. I was just trying to figure out his comment about me having the bullet seated out further than the book says Contributing to higher pressure.
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    And I'll be the first to admit that I made a mistake.
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    So that bullet hits the lands at 2.915 , wouldn't increasing coal lower pressure? If not please explain
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Thanks for checking. Any of you guys using Rl17 in a 6.5 gas gun with good results? I'm gonna try to grab some 6.5 staball and try it too
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Thank you! I'm lucky my newest Hornady manual even has the 6.5 manbun in it lol
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    This is the load data I was going off. I looked at my loads and I started at 39 and top load was 42 grains of rl17. Happen to have a picture of the page in the newer manual?
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Good to know. Thanks for the heads up
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    I need to get a newer book lol
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Lol not quite, just making sure I've got my bases covered. I've never used starline rifle brass before so I just wanted to make sure. I'm used to seeing pressure signs on the back of the case at the ejector, so this one threw me for a loop.
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    Thats Thanks for the pictures, I wasn't sure if there was that much unsupported case in a AR. So maybe I need to abandon reloader 17 in this cartridge. I thought I started pretty low on the charge and even on the first loads u could see a line in that spot. And barrel didn't seem to shoot...
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    So my case diameters are in spec except for that ring and it is .474-.481 on the hotter loads but .470 right in front of that ring. Case length on virgin brass is 1.909 and most of the fired stuff shrunk to 1.899 , with a few odd ball ones being 1.894 and 1.918
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    Help me figure this out. Bulged case head.

    It's the factory psa ( tool craft high pressure dual ejector bolt that came in the rifle from psa)