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7mm sherman max
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<blockquote data-quote="OCHuntin" data-source="post: 1831420" data-attributes="member: 112988"><p>I got the Whidden 7 Max dies and it seems like the seating stem is a little short. Trying to seat 162 AMAXs for fire forming I have to screw the stem and micrometer almost all the way down to get the bullet to seat at all. And all the way down seats the AMAX at almost all the way to the base of the neck. Needs around another .100 to get there. No big deal. One thing that really stinks is once you bottom out the seating stem the internal sleeve stops moving and you can crush the shoulder of the brass. I haven't tried to seat the 195s yet but hopefully the dies are better suited for those than the 162s. I can't say I care for the Whidden dies at all. My preference would be Redding Type S sizer and Forster mic seater. The threads on every piece on both Whidden dies are sloppy loose fitting. The 7/8-14 thread on the seater die body seems under sized and is very sloppy in the press. I worry about concentricity issues once I start loading after fire forming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OCHuntin, post: 1831420, member: 112988"] I got the Whidden 7 Max dies and it seems like the seating stem is a little short. Trying to seat 162 AMAXs for fire forming I have to screw the stem and micrometer almost all the way down to get the bullet to seat at all. And all the way down seats the AMAX at almost all the way to the base of the neck. Needs around another .100 to get there. No big deal. One thing that really stinks is once you bottom out the seating stem the internal sleeve stops moving and you can crush the shoulder of the brass. I haven’t tried to seat the 195s yet but hopefully the dies are better suited for those than the 162s. I can’t say I care for the Whidden dies at all. My preference would be Redding Type S sizer and Forster mic seater. The threads on every piece on both Whidden dies are sloppy loose fitting. The 7/8-14 thread on the seater die body seems under sized and is very sloppy in the press. I worry about concentricity issues once I start loading after fire forming. [/QUOTE]
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