As the title says, I screwed up and don't know what I did wrong. I loaded fifteen 30-06 rounds for my uncle. The brass came from his son in law and they are all once fired.

I loaded up fifteen 270 rounds for myself. All of the rounds had different powder charges as my reloading manual says to. All of my uncles rounds did fine and we found an acceptable recipe. None of my 270 rounds would chamber in my .270.

What the he//!!!!!! All of my .270 rounds had bouldges in the neck area of the cartridges. Please, what did I do wrong. I can't get a decent photo of my bullets.

Sounds like the bullet wasn't aligned straight for seating. Pull the bullets, empty the powder, CAREFULLY de-prime the case and neck size the cases again. You MAY need to anneal the case necks to assure proper sizing. After you have done all this, make sure your bullets are straight and that your case is properly seated in the holder before you ram the bullet seater.

As far as the cases for your .270 not chambering, are they once fired from your rifle and you neck sized or were they from someone else and you neck sized? If they were from someone else's rifle, you will need to full length size and then fireform to YOUR chamber dimensions before you can neck size. Especially if you have a really tight chamber.

My brass came from a range where the employees gather the brass and sell them for $20 for 50pcs. There is no telling how many times that have been shot and reloaded.

your seating die is overcrimping, back the seater die off and use the seater plug to get the COL, your brass are longer than when you loaded the last ammo, I'd trim them. unless its a semi you do not need to crimp them.
RR

I never use range brass. As you said, there's absolutely no telling how many times it's been fired. And considering you can get brand new Winchester brass for under $30 for 50 pieces then the "deal" you are getting really isn't a good deal at all.

Didn't think about the over crimp. Good point pick RR.

ain't my first rodeo, when it comes to stuffin bullets and powder in cases, I've screwed up enough to immediately make the call.
RR

I need to bring this up at our next meeting. we sell our range picked brass for a nickel a case. Any thing that doesn't sell goes to the scraper for what ever the going rate for brass is.

Just pull the decapping pin out of the die if you think it needs resizing.
No need to set your self up for a accident trying to remove LIVE primers.

Al

as for the cases being too long, you need a set of calipers to measure the cases before you load them. your manual should give you the trim length. as one of the other guys said. pull the bullets and dump the powder and measure the case length. if they are over the max length then trim them back to trim length. as far as the crimping or dents on the cases you need to reset the dies. just follow the instructions that came with your dies. did you clean the dies before using them? if they are new dies there could be some grease inside the dies. for the full length die remove the decapping pin and use the tip end of a cleaning rod and the slotted tip and a patch dipped in hopes #9 and run it up inside the die to remove any oil or grease from inside the die. also look for a small hole located near the top of the threads . use a paperclip or needle to clean this hole out. its important that this hole is kept open.

o would never use range brass unless I new for a fact by knowing the guy shot it for the first time and even then I don't really bother. Just buy your own brass and fire form it for your own rifle don't swap it or share brass between rifles if you can help it or if you do you have to full length resize it which stresses your brass.I'm not sure what you meant by bulging the case I hope it's not a powder over charge situation? I would also recommend you do some more reading up on reloading. Let us know what you come up with ?
Muzzlestuffer

OK guy, these were the first rifle rounds that I had ever loaded. I have some new brass that I am going to try when I learn the right way to reloaded. So far all I have done is piss away needed money and embarrass myself. By the way, I measured each and every casing before and after reloading.