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Reloading
Need Suggestions For Picking Reloading Equipment
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<blockquote data-quote="flashhole" data-source="post: 863747" data-attributes="member: 21375"><p>The bushings facilitate quick die change and require a bushing adapter that goes in the press. It makes marketing sense that if you make reloading equipment you can make another thing the consumer can buy ... whether there is any utility value in it or not doesn't matter. If someone will pay money for something, someone else will sell it.</p><p></p><p>There are two ways to look at the quick change bushings:</p><p>1) it adds slop and misalignment (vertical, horizontal and angular) that can hurt accuracy and repeatability. </p><p>2) it adds slop that can help the die be self-aligning to the case/shell holder/ram and that helps accuracy. </p><p>I'm in camp 1. Others may argue against me but I've used both systems and have my own opinion.</p><p></p><p>It is not a big deal to change out a die in a single stage press, I went the route of the bushings several years ago and decided I didn't like the results so I bundled them all up and sold them. I only have one handgun and the rest of what I load are rifles. I get better accuracy and less runout without the bushings or I wouldn't have sold them.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of runout ... another good tool to have is a runout gage. I have the Forsters tool and use it to find inaccuracies in my reloading steps that introduce runout. Then I modify my reloading step to eliminate the runout.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flashhole, post: 863747, member: 21375"] The bushings facilitate quick die change and require a bushing adapter that goes in the press. It makes marketing sense that if you make reloading equipment you can make another thing the consumer can buy ... whether there is any utility value in it or not doesn't matter. If someone will pay money for something, someone else will sell it. There are two ways to look at the quick change bushings: 1) it adds slop and misalignment (vertical, horizontal and angular) that can hurt accuracy and repeatability. 2) it adds slop that can help the die be self-aligning to the case/shell holder/ram and that helps accuracy. I'm in camp 1. Others may argue against me but I've used both systems and have my own opinion. It is not a big deal to change out a die in a single stage press, I went the route of the bushings several years ago and decided I didn't like the results so I bundled them all up and sold them. I only have one handgun and the rest of what I load are rifles. I get better accuracy and less runout without the bushings or I wouldn't have sold them. On the subject of runout ... another good tool to have is a runout gage. I have the Forsters tool and use it to find inaccuracies in my reloading steps that introduce runout. Then I modify my reloading step to eliminate the runout. [/QUOTE]
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