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So my 6.5 Creedmoor is sporting a 28" Criterion SS bull barrel. I've been shooting the CM for awhile, but didn't get around to buying a case gauge for it until last week. I ordered a Wilson gauge, but here's where it gets weird. Fired brass slides right in! Unsized, unwashed, but still goes in like new unfired brass. Once it's cleaned, the only way I can tell it from new/sized brass is that a bullet will slide through the neck.
So is this common, or do I have a defective gauge? I've never had this sort of result with any other rifle or pistol, fired brass NEVER fits a case gauge without resizing first. Under the circumstances, I went ahead and ordered a Lee collet neck sizing die, and that seems to be working just fine. But again, the brass that's now been fired AT LEAST twice is still sliding right into the case gauge. Don't really want to buy a second gauge just to compare, but this just feels wrong to me. Later.
Dave
So is this common, or do I have a defective gauge? I've never had this sort of result with any other rifle or pistol, fired brass NEVER fits a case gauge without resizing first. Under the circumstances, I went ahead and ordered a Lee collet neck sizing die, and that seems to be working just fine. But again, the brass that's now been fired AT LEAST twice is still sliding right into the case gauge. Don't really want to buy a second gauge just to compare, but this just feels wrong to me. Later.
Dave