Corjack gave me a call and suggested I try an unloaded brass sized the same to see if the action would close. I did, and it did. So I thought that ruled out the shoulder, and the bullets just needed seated deeper. But then I tried another one and it would not. So, since I knew at least one round had fit in the R8 and therefore the R8 could handle the length the bullet was seated I used it to test the shoulders. I cycled all 50 pieces of brass I had sized through my R8 and the bolt would close on only 40 of them. So, I have some shoulder problems. Turned my sizing die down and resized all the unloaded ones until the K95 would close on all. Shoved the Bergers in a little farther on the loaded ones until it would close (3.300") and then a little more to be safe and seated all the bullets at 3.284" and then tried them all in the K95. It closed on all but 2. So those two need resized I reckon.
Now you might be wondering why I was closing the K95 on all these loaded rounds with the firing pin dragging across the primer. I wasn't because that problem was already fixed. I called Blaser-USA and talked to Tom, a resident gunsmith. He said I could send it to them if I wanted, but it was an easy fix and I could do it. You know that green dot on the side of the tilting block? That's a blob of paint hiding the head of a set screw with a tiny hex head. When you back it out you can then thread the firing pin in or out from the rear of the block to adjust it's depth until it is just below flush, and then just re-tighten the set screw. Took me longer to find the proper sized allen wrench then it did to fix it. Thanks Tom!
So, now I can try out my loads. Looks like the K95 will get to see Colorado after all
