please tell me i dont have to trim,

[Evan03]

it was late last night i was tired.

i was setting the die to contact the shell holder then back 1/8. i lube the outside of the case and inside the kneck.

heres what i found today. ounce fired unsuzed cases chamber like normal wich suprised me. wich leads me to belive ive strected all 40 beyond use. unless trimmed. wich im not going to do at present time.

heres what i did. i like smoking things.

i smoked a case kneck. stuck it in the die and ran the ram up to the top of its stroke then screwd the die down till it came into contact with the case kneck. lowerd the shell to see how much was contacting. very little. so i screwd the resizeing die down alittle more.

i did this till i had all the smoke rubbed off the kneck and none on the shoulder. then locked the big lock ring down. and adjusted the deal so it would pop the primer out.

then got my seating depth close and smoked a 55gr vmax smokeing the vmax ended up being kinda uselless. i ended up getting just off the lands after alot of bumping and checking in the chamber with the action closed.

now im just off the lands and the the action closes like silk.

will this work.??

ive essiantualy just knecked sized and thats it.???

im sure ill get to a point were i need to full lenght size and trimm after a few times on the loading bench.

but i think i may get better acuracy. these 55s are seated out quite abit further than the factory ammo.

let me know what you think

Evan