So I am just one week into being a reloader. I got a 4-die Lee Classic Turret Press. I'm having issue with the powder thru expanding die (I'm using the Lee Powder Measure on this set up). Once I got this press set up everything was going smoothly for about the first 30 rounds of 9mm. Then for some reason the brass casings started to flare out way too wide (I am using brass that I saved from shooting over the years and I polished it, etc.). I realized that for some reason my expanding die had moved and I had to take it off the turret and re-calibrate it so that it would not flare the brass so much(this is the die that expands and drops powder in the same pull).
My question is : how can I get these 9mm casings that are flared too much to be resized down so I can reload them (I dumped the powder once I realized they had too much flare and stopped the process)? They have the new primers in them so I don't want to just throw them away if there's some way to reduce the flare and reload them. Any ideas or suggestions on how I can do this.
One other problem I am having is I have to keep resetting my crimp die (the 4th die) because it keeps over crimping and making the bullets spin or twist in the casing. I read online to reduce the crimp and that helped for a couple dozen rounds and then it worked itself back into too much of a crimp again and the bullets will spin in the casing, reset and so on. I have the dies tightened down and I am running the press real slow so as to not cause too much movement on the set dies.
Note: I use a digital caliper to check the OAL of every round and I check the weight of the powder on every round with a digital scale.
Any advice is appreciated.
My question is : how can I get these 9mm casings that are flared too much to be resized down so I can reload them (I dumped the powder once I realized they had too much flare and stopped the process)? They have the new primers in them so I don't want to just throw them away if there's some way to reduce the flare and reload them. Any ideas or suggestions on how I can do this.
One other problem I am having is I have to keep resetting my crimp die (the 4th die) because it keeps over crimping and making the bullets spin or twist in the casing. I read online to reduce the crimp and that helped for a couple dozen rounds and then it worked itself back into too much of a crimp again and the bullets will spin in the casing, reset and so on. I have the dies tightened down and I am running the press real slow so as to not cause too much movement on the set dies.
Note: I use a digital caliper to check the OAL of every round and I check the weight of the powder on every round with a digital scale.
Any advice is appreciated.