Split Bushing

[RonS]

I've been reloading for a good while now and this is the first Redding bushing that split, I have over 36 bushings. I was full length sizing some of my 308 Lapua brass and noticed my bullets did not feel right when seating them, the bullets went in too easy and I was able to pull them out by hand. This is when I discovered the split in the bushing. I was using a .340 neck chamber and my brass necks were turned to approximately .014" thickness, just to clean them up. I have been using the 334 bushing for several years. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[Sniper338]

Nope. Never had a bushing split.. never heard of one splitting either.

 

[243winxb]

No splits. Was outside of case neck lubed, Before sizing.
Steel or titanium nitride bushing?

Looks like a defect in the bushing.

Google AI- Redding bushings, used in Type S neck and full-length sizing dies, are heat-treated steel, typically hardened to Rc 60-62. While rare, a split Redding bushing, as noted in user reports, is usually caused by extreme stress during the resizing process, often from improper lubrication or significantly undersized bushings, resulting in a failed component rather than a designed "split" feature.

 

[SeabeeKen]

Ive seen redding bushings wrong size and hole off center but never a split bushing. I stopped using them years ago

 

[neckturner]

I stopped using them

Whose bushings are you using now?

 

[SeabeeKen]

Whose bushings are you using now?

SAC

 

[RonS]

No splits. Was outside of case neck lubed, Before sizing.
Steel or titanium nitride bushing?

Looks like a defect in the bushing.

No splits. Was outside of case neck lubed, Before sizing.
Steel or titanium nitride bushing?

Looks like a defect in the bushing.

I have been using Imperial Application Media with Dry Neck Lube on the necks and Imperial Sizing Die Wax on the body for years with all my cases. I'm thinking a defective bushing also.

 

[WGK]

well I just discovered I had Redding 7mm Saum sizing die that is cracked.

 

[muleystalker]

I've been reloading for a good while now and this is the first Redding bushing that split, I have over 36 bushings. I was full length sizing some of my 308 Lapua brass and noticed my bullets did not feel right when seating them, the bullets went in too easy and I was able to pull them out by hand. This is when I discovered the split in the bushing. I was using a .340 neck chamber and my brass necks were turned to approximately .014" thickness, just to clean them up. I have been using the 334 bushing for several years. Has anyone else experienced this?

I have never seem a bushing split but I have seen several sizing dies split.