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I'll keep that in mind jtallen. Not really too keen about having to buy another die setup but if I have to I probably will. Until then I'll check my setup for crimp and shoulder size. Thx for your help.

I've used the forward asist and it doesn't work half the time. I don't ever use a dowel peg in the barrel, instead I use a plastic mallet and slap the charging handle till it breaks loose. No overkill, just light taps till its free. Like I said earlier, it loves factory ammo which is leaning me more towards the fact that my gun is very picky about what ammo I use. So I guess all my reloads are now to be used in my M-14. I'm gonna pick up a case gauge and see if I can narrow down the issue. If not, it wasn't meant to be. Thanks to everyone for their helpful advise

I've used the forward asist and it doesn't work half the time. I don't ever use a dowel peg in the barrel, instead I use a plastic mallet and slap the charging handle till it breaks loose. No overkill, just light taps till its free. Like I said earlier, it loves factory ammo which is leaning me more towards the fact that my gun is very picky about what ammo I use. So I guess all my reloads are now to be used in my M-14. I'm gonna pick up a case gauge and see if I can narrow down the issue. If not, it wasn't meant to be. Thanks to everyone for their helpful advise

It could be too crimp on the round. As for the case gauge part of a response someone suggested, I use a micrometer for base size comparison to a factory size and overall length of case. Didn't know I needed a case gauge.

I also use case lube on all my cases and clean them after I produce the round. As for the die itself I'm using a RCBS small base die. I've checked the case size with a factory round and it's the same if not smaller.

I'm using the small based die but still having the issue. I'm thinking that I need to polish the chamber

Let me say first off that I'm having issues with my gun feeding reloads that I produced. I'm using a 147 grain bullet which seems to feed some rounds but wont feed others. Heres where it gets confusing. when I use factory ammo I have no problems and the weapon feeds fine. But, when I use my reloads, I have feeding issues. Actually what the problem is is that the bolt wont come completely forward and when I try to manually eject the round it gets stuck in the chamber. the weird part about this is is that I put the gun down to play with something else and a couple hours later, I tried the gun again and I had no problem feeding the reloaded ammo for a full magazine. Here's the kicker, the second magazine I tried to run through encountered the same problem in the beginning. I know its not the magazine cuz its a magpul 20 round mag and its brand new. I'm thinking it has something to do with the chamber swelling but ive never heard such a thing. any helpful tips would be greatly appreciated cuz I don't wanna have to keep buying factory ammo.