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Neck sizing for accuracy
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<blockquote data-quote="Pointman" data-source="post: 1739537" data-attributes="member: 102254"><p>Back in the stone age, I was starting to load for a newly assembled 25-06. I had a gunsmith fit a new target grade barrel and inlet a thumb hole stock. The rifle showed promise for the task it was designed for, long-range ground squirrel shooting. I had a friend with a cattle ranch who was losing cattle with broken legs from squirrel tunnel collapsing. He gave me the run of the ranch. The dies I got were standard FL RCBS dies. I read an article about precision loading and the author recommended what he referred to was "partial" sizing. When setting the dies up, he recommended pitting a dime on the shell holder and then screwing the die down to that point and lock it down. I believe this gave what is now referred to a bump sizing just setting the shoulder back and still getting the case sizing benefit from FL sizing. This worked for me and gave me extremely good brass life. This was in the time when I had to use a trim die to reform old military 30-06 surplus brass to 25-06. I typically got brass life in the low teens. Granted I wasn't "hot rodding" the loads just looking for the best group. I carried this process forward till this day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pointman, post: 1739537, member: 102254"] Back in the stone age, I was starting to load for a newly assembled 25-06. I had a gunsmith fit a new target grade barrel and inlet a thumb hole stock. The rifle showed promise for the task it was designed for, long-range ground squirrel shooting. I had a friend with a cattle ranch who was losing cattle with broken legs from squirrel tunnel collapsing. He gave me the run of the ranch. The dies I got were standard FL RCBS dies. I read an article about precision loading and the author recommended what he referred to was "partial" sizing. When setting the dies up, he recommended pitting a dime on the shell holder and then screwing the die down to that point and lock it down. I believe this gave what is now referred to a bump sizing just setting the shoulder back and still getting the case sizing benefit from FL sizing. This worked for me and gave me extremely good brass life. This was in the time when I had to use a trim die to reform old military 30-06 surplus brass to 25-06. I typically got brass life in the low teens. Granted I wasn’t “hot rodding” the loads just looking for the best group. I carried this process forward till this day. [/QUOTE]
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