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Best bullet release/neck tension?
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<blockquote data-quote="Remmy700" data-source="post: 1442852" data-attributes="member: 36564"><p>I stainless wet tumble all my brass, anneal every firing on magnums and every two firings for non magnums. Once tumble is done I then inside and outside neck chamfer. Here lately I have been using FL non bushing dies mostly forster BR dies with all the guts removed (expander, decapper). My final step after all is said and done is running a brass brush on a drill through all the necks which has a little bit of steel wool strands entangled in the brass bristles and then passing a Sinclair NT mandrel in all the necks to set my neck tension. I have found that even with cleaned up necks (neck turned) that with no expander in die it roughly sizes the brass down to around .004 - .005 below bullet diameter. The mandrel is .002 below bullet diameter so opens all the necks up to the exact same dimension. I have no issue at all keeping my SD to 1 or 2 and normally if my ES is above 6 I keep tweaking load. This can only be accomplished though if all the other variables (powder charge, quality seating die, uniform primer pockets etc.) is in check. Using the mandrels and quality scale has been my biggest finding to consistently controlling and producing concentric ammo.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]98202[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remmy700, post: 1442852, member: 36564"] I stainless wet tumble all my brass, anneal every firing on magnums and every two firings for non magnums. Once tumble is done I then inside and outside neck chamfer. Here lately I have been using FL non bushing dies mostly forster BR dies with all the guts removed (expander, decapper). My final step after all is said and done is running a brass brush on a drill through all the necks which has a little bit of steel wool strands entangled in the brass bristles and then passing a Sinclair NT mandrel in all the necks to set my neck tension. I have found that even with cleaned up necks (neck turned) that with no expander in die it roughly sizes the brass down to around .004 - .005 below bullet diameter. The mandrel is .002 below bullet diameter so opens all the necks up to the exact same dimension. I have no issue at all keeping my SD to 1 or 2 and normally if my ES is above 6 I keep tweaking load. This can only be accomplished though if all the other variables (powder charge, quality seating die, uniform primer pockets etc.) is in check. Using the mandrels and quality scale has been my biggest finding to consistently controlling and producing concentric ammo. [ATTACH=full]98202[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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