On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 01:30:52 -0500
"RogerN" wrote:

Tuesday I received my Lee LoadMaster progressive press for .223 Remington.
Adjusted and tested, weighed several powder charges, etc. I reloaded a few
cartridges last night and ran a small batch tonight, now I have 126 reloaded
cartridges plus 80 purchased. The 126 was the number of brass I had ready
to reload...
snip

You should try running some of your reloads through your semi-auto
before going any farther. Story...

Years ago when I was ambitious I loaded up some .223 ammo with a
recommended recipe. They didn't work so well in a Mini-14. You would
get off one shot and then a jam. What was happening was the shell was
being extracted while the powder was still burning, leaving powder
debris in the chamber. The next shell would jam in this debris. I'm
sure that same recipe would work okay in anything but an auto-loader but
I learned this the hard way...

Auto-loaders can be pretty picky on what you feed them

Watch your crimps too, auto-loaders really man-handle their ammo...

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
Remove no.spam for email