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Originally Posted by TRBeaver
Anyone reloading 380 ACP notice the re-sized brass is squeezed at the neck? I'm not sure if they should be straight or squeezed.
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What gat are you shooting this in?
What I think you are seeing, is that brass fired in a loose chamber is getting resized pretty strongly. Or if the cartridge looks bottle-necked, you might have either a carbide die or even a regular steel die that is set to not fully resize the case all the way down.
Are you saying the reloaded case is narrower at the neck, or just the resized/decapped brass before you neck-expand it?
A photo of a fired brass case and one of your reloads would help diagnose.
What press/dies are you using? Carbide die or not?
I know RCBS does or at least did offer a service where you send them back the resizing die and a few fired cases, and they would adjust for minimum needed resizing (for max brass life) for a nominal fee or even for free. Realize if you do this, your ammo will fit the specific gun you had them tune the dies for very well, but if you have a big chamber, it might not even chamber in another gat. This can become a PITA if you have 2 guns of the same caliber, you would need to keep ammo segregated to each gun.
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