I have never neck shot an Elk, but more deer than I care to remember, I keep it simple, all less than 100 yards, face on or from the rear, never side on, too risky side on, you can just hit the windpipe and it will run off and have a slow death, and you will just think, damn I missed.
I had a busy day yesterday, teaching a father and his 2 son's to fly fish, after 3 hours to they had picked up the basics, off came the wool on went the flies.....damn it took a while for me to figure out what they were rising to, the obvious was a huge caddis hatch, but no it was a small olive...
It is to someone who doesn't have a 'off season', I feel for you all, but it does, as you say, provide entertainment, and has done since I joined over 10 years ago. Not long to go now chaps ;)
I have eaten lots, but cooked zero, my 94 year old mother-in-law (or as I have her in my phone on speed dial, monster-in-law, she know's it and likes a joke) makes a lovely pie, she makes it along similar lines of this recipe
She uses cod, for the smoked fish its mainly haddock, but sometimes...
I know him personally, which is strange as I live so far away! A really genuine friendly guy, he has mentioned coming across the pond with his wife to visit one day, they are more than welcome, one favour deserves another.
I think was the problem.
I went right back to basics.
Rather than FL resize I neck sized only, and they chambered fine.
Then I moved onto the FL die, problems, it's bizarre as everything measures fine.
So I wound the die back out and it's working ok, the odd thing is the FL die has never been...
Any advice on this welcomed.
New brass, Lapua brass, it's a 6.5/55 SE, no issues
But, I have tried to reload once fired brass out of the rifle.
Problems, full length resized and trimmed to length and all within SAMMI specs.
Tried the unloaded brass and it chambers fine, bolt closes, no issues...