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<blockquote data-quote="918v" data-source="post: 1173731" data-attributes="member: 84964"><p>Your press is not rigid. It flexes. This flex causes the shoulder of a bottlenecked case to be bumped less than you think you're trying to bump it. The amount of shoulder bump depends on the press, the cartridge, the hardness of the brass, and the amount of expansion of the brass. The harder the brass is to size the less the shoulder will be bumped. </p><p></p><p>If you raise the ram and screw down the die and jam it against the shell holder the variables mentioned above will cause the die to spring away from the shell holder once the case is inside. This adds anywhere from .002" to .004" to the shoulder length. If you set the die to cam over, you remove the above variables and the die sizes the case to whatever the die and shell holder allow given their fixed dimensions.</p><p></p><p>In most cases, this bumps the shoulder .008" to .010" from its fired dimension which is excessive. If the goal is to bump .002", we have to back the die off. But we can't back the die off a quarter turn or even an eighth. We have to take into account flex, linkage slack, brass hardness, brass diameter, and the .004" this may induce and only back the die off ever so slightly.</p><p></p><p>The procedure I described gets you into the appropriate range of shoulder bump right away versus having to back the die off a lot and then going through a lot of trial and error.</p><p></p><p>The easiest thing to do is to cam over an appropriate Redding competition shell holder. But if you don't want to get a set, then messing with die adjustment is what you'll have to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="918v, post: 1173731, member: 84964"] Your press is not rigid. It flexes. This flex causes the shoulder of a bottlenecked case to be bumped less than you think you're trying to bump it. The amount of shoulder bump depends on the press, the cartridge, the hardness of the brass, and the amount of expansion of the brass. The harder the brass is to size the less the shoulder will be bumped. If you raise the ram and screw down the die and jam it against the shell holder the variables mentioned above will cause the die to spring away from the shell holder once the case is inside. This adds anywhere from .002" to .004" to the shoulder length. If you set the die to cam over, you remove the above variables and the die sizes the case to whatever the die and shell holder allow given their fixed dimensions. In most cases, this bumps the shoulder .008" to .010" from its fired dimension which is excessive. If the goal is to bump .002", we have to back the die off. But we can't back the die off a quarter turn or even an eighth. We have to take into account flex, linkage slack, brass hardness, brass diameter, and the .004" this may induce and only back the die off ever so slightly. The procedure I described gets you into the appropriate range of shoulder bump right away versus having to back the die off a lot and then going through a lot of trial and error. The easiest thing to do is to cam over an appropriate Redding competition shell holder. But if you don't want to get a set, then messing with die adjustment is what you'll have to do. [/QUOTE]
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