Background: I have loaded approximately 4K .223 rounds on this same press, Lee Pro 1000, shell carrier and dies.
All the cases had already been vibrate cleaned with crushed walnut, ran through the sizing due to size and remove primer, trimmed for length, primer pocket cleaned and, if necessary crimp removed, case neck chamfered in and out, and the brass was lubed with Frankford Arsenal case lube. I was on round 700 or so out of the 1K I planned on making.
I was surprised, obviously!!, by the result. I automatically thought stuck case but, once I got the press apart to just the shell holder and the turret, the shell came out fairly easy. I did remove the decapper first. It might have been a combination of things that I didn't see as I had to remove many pieces to be able to remove the brass. It was the second time through the press for that case so I just can't see stuck case scenario. Also surprised that the whole carrier didn't come loose from the ram before the carrier gave up the ghost.
The recipe I was using is 55gn head with cannelure, mixed brass, 27.3gn CFE223, CCI small rifle primers at a COL of 2.200.
I emailed Lee at 9pm Thur, had a response by 1100am. They are sending me a new shell carrier. I was hoping for a pain-free email exchange and a new carrier sent but was expecting much less. I got exactly what I was hoping for. Only part I am disappointed in, is that I have to pay shipping but at least they didn't ask me to send the failed part to them, which is another thing I was surprised by.
Lot of surprising things going on here...[emoji6]
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Originally Posted by LittleLebowski
