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Bushing Dies How To?
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<blockquote data-quote="epoletna" data-source="post: 1705492" data-attributes="member: 87371"><p>I was going to write a long reply explaining why a collet die (for sizing, not seating) was not what you needed, but others have covered it well. Let me reiterate the high points:</p><p></p><p>1. If you don't know the neck diameter of your rifle chamber (you probably have a rifle with SAAMI standards), you probably can't make much difference with a collet die and specially-selected collets. I know the neck diameter on my bench-rest rifles, but not on my hunting rifles.</p><p></p><p>2. If you don't standardize your neck thickness by turning all your case necks to the same thickness, you probably can't make much difference with a collet die.</p><p></p><p>3. If you use different brands and lots of brass, you probably can't make much difference with a collet die.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line: if you're reloading for bench rest matches where the results are compared in thousandths of an inch and incredible consistency goes into every step of the reloading process, you are probably not gaining anything with collet dies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epoletna, post: 1705492, member: 87371"] I was going to write a long reply explaining why a collet die (for sizing, not seating) was not what you needed, but others have covered it well. Let me reiterate the high points: 1. If you don't know the neck diameter of your rifle chamber (you probably have a rifle with SAAMI standards), you probably can't make much difference with a collet die and specially-selected collets. I know the neck diameter on my bench-rest rifles, but not on my hunting rifles. 2. If you don't standardize your neck thickness by turning all your case necks to the same thickness, you probably can't make much difference with a collet die. 3. If you use different brands and lots of brass, you probably can't make much difference with a collet die. Bottom line: if you're reloading for bench rest matches where the results are compared in thousandths of an inch and incredible consistency goes into every step of the reloading process, you are probably not gaining anything with collet dies. [/QUOTE]
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