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Jerry
Excellent article and I am in 100% agreement with most of it.
There are a few things I do different though. I do use a Lee hand primer on occasion but I don’t get the feel I get with my RCBS bench primer. Honestly it’s to the point that it pisses me off every time I use the Lee primer, but then I have used the RCBS for over 30 years and only got the Lee in the last couple so maybe that has something to do with it.
I like either a full length bushing die or a full length die that has had the neck reamed for the proper neck tension. Like Jerry I do not like having the expander ball pulled through the neck after resizing, it can cause crooked necks.
With moderate loads the Lee collet dies work great but with hot loads the case really needs to be FL sized each time for easy chambering. Jerry’s idea of using the body die with the collet die is great though if you want to run the cases through the die twice to resize, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I also do that when using the Redding competition neck sizing die. I also I still use the Lee collet die with a few rifles too. If you load light enough that you don’t need to FL size it sure is great to not need to remove resizing lube.
I’ll give this article 5 stars and 2 thumbs up.
Good job Jerry
James
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