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<blockquote data-quote="slas" data-source="post: 3191222" data-attributes="member: 39669"><p>I just started reloading 45 acp and have only sized and loaded virgin brass up to now, so this was my first time working with fired 45 acp brass. I always decap before cleaning my brass so I started running my fired 45 acp brass through my lee universal decapper. I noticed a small amount of resistence but not much so I went ahead and did about 100. After cleaning I started to run them through the sizing die and notice there was absolutely no resistence at all. It appears that the decapping die also did some sizing on them. The crimp has some resistence still. I went ahead and put a bullet in one of the empty cartridges to see what the bullet tension was like and if it would properly chamber and it appears to. It required normal push to seat the bullet and it appears to chamber OK in the pistol. I even double checked the info on the Lee die to ensure it was OK for 45 acp and it covers 22-45 caliber.</p><p></p><p>So, my question. Has anyone else had this happen? Any ideas as to what's up with this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slas, post: 3191222, member: 39669"] I just started reloading 45 acp and have only sized and loaded virgin brass up to now, so this was my first time working with fired 45 acp brass. I always decap before cleaning my brass so I started running my fired 45 acp brass through my lee universal decapper. I noticed a small amount of resistence but not much so I went ahead and did about 100. After cleaning I started to run them through the sizing die and notice there was absolutely no resistence at all. It appears that the decapping die also did some sizing on them. The crimp has some resistence still. I went ahead and put a bullet in one of the empty cartridges to see what the bullet tension was like and if it would properly chamber and it appears to. It required normal push to seat the bullet and it appears to chamber OK in the pistol. I even double checked the info on the Lee die to ensure it was OK for 45 acp and it covers 22-45 caliber. So, my question. Has anyone else had this happen? Any ideas as to what's up with this? [/QUOTE]
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