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  1. That seems counter intuitive. In case I gave a poor description, the case is larger by 0.002 at the end the bullet goes in. So its still belled just a tiny bit. EDIT: okay googling wasp wasted I get it now, i think we are on the same page.
  2. Haha. It's a single stage press. Can't justify another with the volume I would produce. I'm like a twice a month competitor.
  3. How straight are we talking here? Visually? Or? I'm mesuring 0.423 at the top of case and 0.420 about an 1/8th inch down.
  4. I started out loading plated bullets and had great success (40 cal). I'm now giving coated bullets a go. First I tried beyou bullets and had some issues with scraping. So a while later I decided to give it another go after doing some reading and got some blue bullets. This time I may have figured out my primary issue was the seating die crimping to soon during seating. So at this point I have it setup to wear the bell is just about visually removed and seated to the correct depth. My question is, is it necessary to completely remove the bell, or is a pass of the plunk test sufficient? Is there a measurement I should be going for?
  5. My gun does not have the recoil spring in the stock. My recoil spring surrounds the mag tube. At any rate, that seemed to be the issue. I put a light lube on around the mag tube (where the recoil spring rides) and it has functioned flawlessly since.
  6. Yea jcc7x7 that's what I was afraid of. I feel like i'm giving it an extreme amount of bell, but I will try more. My seating / crimping die is set perfect, just removes the bell and no crimp. I have had flawless cycling.
  7. I normally shoot Berry's plated and thought I would give the Bayou's a go. As far as accuracy and smoke (titegroup), they are fine (although far far more smoke than the plated). I was having issues with the coating getting scraped off when seating them. Is any scraping unacceptable, or is minor scraping okay. I have these belled to what i think is pretty far, but maybe I need to go even farther? I'm very new to coated bullets so after about 100 rounds I'm seeing what i think is a pretty good amount of leading. Is this due to the coating scraping off, or is that unavoidable? If it matters, gun is m&p pro and they are loaded to uspsa major.
  8. I had put about 300 rounds through this gun with zero issues over the last few years doing duck/upland/clays shooting. So I loan it to my father in law for a guided goose/duck hunt in Canada. He said on the last day it staring failing to load the second shell. I'm guessing the bolt just didn't quite close all the way. He said he shot almost a case of 3" duck and goose loads. So, my first thought was maybe I didn't send it with him as clean as I thought I did. So I cleaned the gun as clean as I could possibly make it, following all of the instructions from the manual. Just got around to shooting it again today on some clays. So with a very clean gun I shot maybe 5 shells and one of them failed to load. I could see that the shell dropped from the mag tube, the lifter stared to push it toward the chamber and it stopped. Giving it a slight nudge with the bolt handle and it loaded. I then went on to shoot over 2 boxes with complete success (they were cheap federal 7-1/2 lead). I really can't imagine the recoil spring is bad on a < 500 round total firings. The only thing I question (has done this from day one), if you pull the bolt back it's smooth right up until it engages the lifter, at that point I would say it "hangs up". But I have been told that it's supposed to stop there and it simply needs a bit more force to start the lifter moving. Any ideas? I hesitate to take it to a local gunsmith (Des Moines, IA) since I haven't talked to any that seem to have a whole lot of experience with Xtremas.
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