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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 629600" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>two things I really like about the Forster, and for the rest they are all pretty equale. The shoulders seem to look better with a Forster than the others, and I can really see this with a naked eye. In a shadow graph the difference really jumps out in your face. The Forster seems to get those two small radi right at the neck and shoulder junctions. The elevated sizing ball seems to help, but how much is upto the individual user. This one reason why the Forster die is so well known for minimum neck runout. The seater is a different story, and theirs is the best period! </p><p> </p><p>In my 6mm and smaller stuff I use a lot of micrometer headed seaters, but with one exception (soon to be fixed). I also have a few Reddings with the micrometer head on them. The Forster for some oddball reason seems to have about 1/3rd the backlash in the mechanism. Kind of a moote point if you take up the backlash in the first place. I like the way that Redding did the lines and numbers better than Forster (easy to see with old eyeballs). I wish that one of them would come out with a head that had detents built into it. I might add here that I have one Hornaday die with the micrometer head on it in 30-06. There's so much slop in it that it's almost unusable!</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 629600, member: 25383"] two things I really like about the Forster, and for the rest they are all pretty equale. The shoulders seem to look better with a Forster than the others, and I can really see this with a naked eye. In a shadow graph the difference really jumps out in your face. The Forster seems to get those two small radi right at the neck and shoulder junctions. The elevated sizing ball seems to help, but how much is upto the individual user. This one reason why the Forster die is so well known for minimum neck runout. The seater is a different story, and theirs is the best period! In my 6mm and smaller stuff I use a lot of micrometer headed seaters, but with one exception (soon to be fixed). I also have a few Reddings with the micrometer head on them. The Forster for some oddball reason seems to have about 1/3rd the backlash in the mechanism. Kind of a moote point if you take up the backlash in the first place. I like the way that Redding did the lines and numbers better than Forster (easy to see with old eyeballs). I wish that one of them would come out with a head that had detents built into it. I might add here that I have one Hornaday die with the micrometer head on it in 30-06. There's so much slop in it that it's almost unusable! gary [/QUOTE]
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