Well, that's a frustrating failure

[Fast14riot]

Base sizing my 260AI brass with a 45acp die and had the lip of my shell holder rip off! Yes, I did lap it lower, but took off only .008". Using plenty of imperial, didn't feel any more force on sizing that the thousands of other times I've done this. Never had a shell holder fail before!

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Wouldn’t have thought it was possible.

 

[joshb]

Never seen that before.

 

[Bc'z]

Animal. LMFAO

 

[Bill Norris]

First time I've seen that.

 

[L.Sherm]

I did the same thing once.

 

[Olspark]

I’ve had that happen. Buy another and fix it for your style. They’re not expensive

 

[dellet]

Tough brass. Probably never lose a primer pocket. What brand?

 

[Fast14riot]

Tough brass. Probably never lose a primer pocket. What brand?

Peterson 260 SRP. It bent the rim, but didn't rip it off. This case is about 10x fired, too.

 

[Fast14riot]

Animal. LMFAO

Jealous

 

[rkj1313]

Happened to me too

 

[Fast14riot]

The offending case

 

[K22]

I'll echo what others have said, never saw that before in near 60 years of reloading.

Not saying this caused the failure, but I never did understand the reasons to modify dies and shell holders.

 

[Hengehold]

Base sizing my 260AI brass with a 45acp die and had the lip of my shell holder rip off! Yes, I did lap it lower, but took off only .008". Using plenty of imperial, didn't feel any more force on sizing that the thousands of other times I've done this. Never had a shell holder fail before!

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I took the other route and removed metal from the bottom of the sizing die with a belt sander.

It will allow you to maintain the strength of the shell holder.

 

[Doug Beach]

Buy a Lee .45 die. Cut most of the top off. Make a pusher that goes into your shell holder, and push your rifle cases all the way through the die, retrieving them from the top.
Foolproof.

 

[DShortt]

Base sizing my 260AI brass with a 45acp die and had the lip of my shell holder rip off! Yes, I did lap it lower, but took off only .008". Using plenty of imperial, didn't feel any more force on sizing that the thousands of other times I've done this. Never had a shell holder fail before!

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Well, shit. Hopefully that wasn't an off-spec shell holder, or you're gonna have to adjust everything to compensate for the replacement.
Good times.

 

[30EX]

Not lending you any of my stuff, no way

 

[Fast14riot]

Well, shit. Hopefully that wasn't an off-spec shell holder, or you're gonna have to adjust everything to compensate for the replacement.
Good times.

It had a deck height of .128" according to my notes. I took it down to .120" to not have contact with the die.

I took the other route and removed metal from the bottom of the sizing die with a belt sander.

It will allow you to maintain the strength of the shell holder.

Thats what I'm doing next, except in a lathe.

Buy a Lee .45 die. Cut most of the top off. Make a pusher that goes into your shell holder, and push your rifle cases all the way through the die, retrieving them from the top.
Foolproof.

The old RCBS 45 dies are same diameter all the way through and short, just would need to make a pusher for this one.

 

[Fast14riot]

I'll echo what others have said, never saw that before in near 60 years of reloading.

Not saying this caused the failure, but I never did understand the reasons to modify dies and shell holders.

My tinfoil hat theory, Redding likes to sell comp shell holder sets so their dies are just a bit too long to work perfectly with other brands...

 

[Bc'z]

My tinfoil hat theory, Redding likes to sell comp shell holder sets so their dies are just a bit too long to work perfectly with other brands...

I've got a #2 shell holder that had .010 faced off I'd trade for a box of church's. Lol