So I finally got my reloading press set up and I loaded my first 20 rounds of 223 last night. 10 rounds of Lehigh Defense 55 grain controlled chaos and 10 rounds of 55 grain vmax. Each were for load development. Once fired hornady brass fired through my howa 1500 for lehigh load and once fired federal brass for my vmax load. I am using a RCBS two die set with a full length resizing die that I set up using a wilson case guage. COL was set at 2.245 for the leigh defense as stated in the load data. No crimp was given for either.
Went to shoot the load today and two of the lehigh loads would not chamber fully. The bolt would not close on my Howa 1500 for the two rounds. When I got home I checked the rounds and they wouldn't fit in my Lyman cartridge guage but looked fine in my LE wilson case gauge. I used the wilson gauge to set up my sizing die.
What do you guys think is the problem?
Went to shoot the load today and two of the lehigh loads would not chamber fully. The bolt would not close on my Howa 1500 for the two rounds. When I got home I checked the rounds and they wouldn't fit in my Lyman cartridge guage but looked fine in my LE wilson case gauge. I used the wilson gauge to set up my sizing die.
What do you guys think is the problem?