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Old 09-16-2008, 8:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Siringo View Post
I trimmed 100 cases last night. Before trimming, most of them varied between 1.690 and 1.697. The once fired Hornaday cases were 1.690 to 1.692. Most of the other cases had been reloaded 3 times. Seems that Hornaday is making these cases on the short end.

I am using an RCBS press w/Hornaday dies.

Well, .010" is not really short, just more than I like. There are production realities that we've just got to put up with, but we as custom reloaders can hold much tighter standards. Having said all that, Hornady really has made some mighty fine accurate fodder, you must admit.

As an after thought, make sure you full length resize before you trim and then trim to the shortest cartridge you wish to use, saving the rest for other uses.
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