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Reloading
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<blockquote data-quote="woods" data-source="post: 450331" data-attributes="member: 6042"><p>You can set your rifle up on the bench, close the bolt on the empty chamber and get a feel for the amount of force necessary to close the bolt, put a case in and see if it gets harder to close. If it is harder then keep adjusting your FL die down in very small increments until it gets easier - like closing on the empty chamber, you have pushed the shoulder back. Don't push it back any further than necessary to slightly alleviate the crush fit. </p><p></p><p>If there is no difference to begin with, you do not need to bump the shoulder and can just neck size with the Lee Collet.</p><p></p><p>However, if you remove the expander assembly from the FL die then the die will size the neck MUCH SMALLER and it will make seating the bullet harder and cause runout and excessive bullet grip. You COULD then resize with the Lee Collet to re-expand the neck out to a decent ID.</p><p></p><p>You should see if you have the crush fit first and use the FL die with the expander. IMO using the expander will probably cause some runout issues but running the Lee Collet mandrel back into the neck to re-expand the neck will probably not correct that runout you have introduced with the expander, so why bother with it. Best case scenario is that you don't have a crush fit and don't need to push the shoulder back and just neck size with the Lee Collet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woods, post: 450331, member: 6042"] You can set your rifle up on the bench, close the bolt on the empty chamber and get a feel for the amount of force necessary to close the bolt, put a case in and see if it gets harder to close. If it is harder then keep adjusting your FL die down in very small increments until it gets easier - like closing on the empty chamber, you have pushed the shoulder back. Don't push it back any further than necessary to slightly alleviate the crush fit. If there is no difference to begin with, you do not need to bump the shoulder and can just neck size with the Lee Collet. However, if you remove the expander assembly from the FL die then the die will size the neck MUCH SMALLER and it will make seating the bullet harder and cause runout and excessive bullet grip. You COULD then resize with the Lee Collet to re-expand the neck out to a decent ID. You should see if you have the crush fit first and use the FL die with the expander. IMO using the expander will probably cause some runout issues but running the Lee Collet mandrel back into the neck to re-expand the neck will probably not correct that runout you have introduced with the expander, so why bother with it. Best case scenario is that you don't have a crush fit and don't need to push the shoulder back and just neck size with the Lee Collet. [/QUOTE]
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