Originally Posted by
Texas10
You'll have to excuse me if i ask a dumb question here, I am no expert but I did stay in a Holiday Express Inn recently. A thought that crossed my mind was had you removed the extractor from the head when setting head space? And if not, were you certain the extractor was engaging the gage rim and not just jamming up against the base?
One way to quickly check is to put a layer or two of scotch tape on the head of a case and try to chamber it with the extractor removed.
While you have the extractor out, replacing the ball with a 9/64 ball helps with extraction.