{"id":75,"date":"2012-04-30T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.28.118.115\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-04-30T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T22:58:00","slug":"reloading-is-usually-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/reloading-is-usually-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Reloading is usually fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shoot often, so naturally I need to reload ammo often. Probably at least 100 rounds per week depending how much I shoot. I&#8217;ve been shooting a lot of 9 over the past few weeks so today I needed to do some reloading.<br \/>\nI start to reload some\u00a0cartridges\u00a0this morning and noticed a strange vertical pattern of lines down the case from my resizing die. I&#8217;ve never seen this happen before.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01824.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76 aligncenter\" title=\"DSC01824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01824-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThen I get not one, but three cases stuck. All nickel plated brass(which physically looks great.) For those who don&#8217;t reload- a stuck case is awful, it taken time and pain to remove it from the die.<br \/>\nI finally managed to get them all out. I stopped reloading. I e-mailed Lee Precision(the manufacture of my press and dies) and Peter suggests the dies may be dirty. So I sprayed them out with some Gun Scrubber.<br \/>\nWhen I actually look inside of them they was a brass ring of just case debris that has built up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC01834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01834-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI managed to get it out using some 800 grit sandpaper, pen and some Hoppes 9.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78\" title=\"DSC01832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01832-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI set the die back up and everything is working perfect again. No more scratches on the case.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-77\" title=\"DSC01829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01829-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shoot often, so naturally I need to reload ammo often. Probably at least 100 rounds per week depending how much I shoot. I&#8217;ve been shooting a lot of 9 over the past few weeks so today I needed to do some reloading. I start to reload some\u00a0cartridges\u00a0this morning and noticed a strange vertical pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reloading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}