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<blockquote data-quote="Remmy700" data-source="post: 1413709" data-attributes="member: 36564"><p>Very good question. So you are going to get a lot of different answers from the wealth of experience on this forum and all of them in their on right is not right wrong or indifferent but through experience what they have decided works best for them. I personally use neck dies that use bushings mainly Redding Type S with the expander removed. When you decide on the correct bushing which is basically the diameter of your bullet + your neck wall thickness x 2 subtracted by what the actual amount of neck tension you want typically like .002 or .003. I found that when using factory expander balls once I set the neck tension where I wanted it to be the expander ball would then pull back through on down stroke and change that, so I simply stopped using it. On some calibers with really strong ejectors you will get cases dinged up which is pretty normal. I started using an expander mandrel to take care of those and then run it through my neck die. I am sure you will get some more insight from the other great members here. And welcome to the forum brother.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remmy700, post: 1413709, member: 36564"] Very good question. So you are going to get a lot of different answers from the wealth of experience on this forum and all of them in their on right is not right wrong or indifferent but through experience what they have decided works best for them. I personally use neck dies that use bushings mainly Redding Type S with the expander removed. When you decide on the correct bushing which is basically the diameter of your bullet + your neck wall thickness x 2 subtracted by what the actual amount of neck tension you want typically like .002 or .003. I found that when using factory expander balls once I set the neck tension where I wanted it to be the expander ball would then pull back through on down stroke and change that, so I simply stopped using it. On some calibers with really strong ejectors you will get cases dinged up which is pretty normal. I started using an expander mandrel to take care of those and then run it through my neck die. I am sure you will get some more insight from the other great members here. And welcome to the forum brother. [/QUOTE]
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