03-18-2011, 03:16 AM
LR1955 and pappy42 have given you some good advice. One correction though is that the Hornady brass uses a small rifle primer. Rem 7 1/2 and CCI 450 primers are a good choice for the AR application. A couple of techniques that might help you set up your dies and help prevent unneeded frustration:
1) After you resize your first piece of brass, drop the resized brass into the chamber and gently ease the bolt down by holding onto the charging handle. Push on the forward assist to snap the extractor over the case rim and continue to push gently on the forward assist to see if the bolt will close completely. If you meet resistance, Stop, extract the brass, turn your die down a little more. Resize and repeat until the bolt closes easily. The best way to do this is with proper tools to measure headspace, but since your just starting out, this technique will get you up and running.
2) After you have your sizing die set up, take a piece of resized brass and seat your bullet of choice to the length indicated in the reloading data or just seat it to 2.60" overall length so it will fit in the magazine. Take the dummy round, push it firmly in the chamber with your finger. Turn your muzzle up and see if the round falls out of the chamber. If so, you bullet is not touching the lands, and you are good to go. If the round sticks, push it out with a cleaning rod. Incrementally seat the bullet deeper (say by 0.005" or so) until the dummy round no longer sticks in the chamber. This is now your max overall cartridge length for your barrel.
If you take the time to do these 2 things before you load a bunch of rounds, you will save yourself a lot of grief. It's no fun to show up at the range with ammo that will not chamber or that stick in the chamber and are difficult to extract.
Summary: Your rifle is not a sizing die or seating die, so make sure your ammo fits YOUR rifle.
Good luck with your reloading; it is a lot of fun.
BTW if you want some hunting loads you can check out these posts:
http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...hrono-data
http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...ad-success
Best,
PA
1) After you resize your first piece of brass, drop the resized brass into the chamber and gently ease the bolt down by holding onto the charging handle. Push on the forward assist to snap the extractor over the case rim and continue to push gently on the forward assist to see if the bolt will close completely. If you meet resistance, Stop, extract the brass, turn your die down a little more. Resize and repeat until the bolt closes easily. The best way to do this is with proper tools to measure headspace, but since your just starting out, this technique will get you up and running.
2) After you have your sizing die set up, take a piece of resized brass and seat your bullet of choice to the length indicated in the reloading data or just seat it to 2.60" overall length so it will fit in the magazine. Take the dummy round, push it firmly in the chamber with your finger. Turn your muzzle up and see if the round falls out of the chamber. If so, you bullet is not touching the lands, and you are good to go. If the round sticks, push it out with a cleaning rod. Incrementally seat the bullet deeper (say by 0.005" or so) until the dummy round no longer sticks in the chamber. This is now your max overall cartridge length for your barrel.
If you take the time to do these 2 things before you load a bunch of rounds, you will save yourself a lot of grief. It's no fun to show up at the range with ammo that will not chamber or that stick in the chamber and are difficult to extract.
Summary: Your rifle is not a sizing die or seating die, so make sure your ammo fits YOUR rifle.
Good luck with your reloading; it is a lot of fun.
BTW if you want some hunting loads you can check out these posts:
http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...hrono-data
http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...ad-success
Best,
PA