You're quite welcome. There are other methods for measuring OAL to the rifling, but the one I described above is the one I've settled on and it seems to work okay. There are also tools you can buy for this purpose, but I haven't seen a need to buy one.

I don't know if I can answer your other question. I don't useconventional full length dies.If you're satisfied you're using enough lube on the cases (outside and insidethe neck)then maybe the die itself is at fault.The interior surface of the die could berough and in needof polishing if the cases arethat hard to extract. Hopefully someoneelse can offer some better advice on this.