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Quick question - on dies
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<blockquote data-quote="Sending156s" data-source="post: 2068228" data-attributes="member: 109060"><p><strong>Fo</strong>rster & Redding are very good. Though all commercial dies you buy will resize to minimum SAAMI specs. Your chamber could be close to maximum SAAMI specs in order to work with any commercial ammo.</p><p></p><p> Just my opinion; when you are ready for your brass to be the most concentric in your chamber and desire to extend brass life fire form 3 cases with max loads neck sizing only. After shooting send cases to Wiley at Whidden Gunworks and have custom dies made. They make the dies based off your fire formed brass. I recommend non bushing dies with the neck machined 1 or 2 thou smaller than you want for neck tension then add a step to your reloading process of sizing the dies for neck tension using a mandrel from Sinclair or 21st Century. With the calibers you mentioned hopefully you will be using Lapua brass. They make these in bushing dies. Just be aware that you will not resize entire neck with bushing dies. The only way to do that is to use Neil Jones or David Tubbs dies that have a combo neck/shoulder bushing.</p><p></p><p>Good luck & Happy New Year!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sending156s, post: 2068228, member: 109060"] [B]Fo[/B]rster & Redding are very good. Though all commercial dies you buy will resize to minimum SAAMI specs. Your chamber could be close to maximum SAAMI specs in order to work with any commercial ammo. Just my opinion; when you are ready for your brass to be the most concentric in your chamber and desire to extend brass life fire form 3 cases with max loads neck sizing only. After shooting send cases to Wiley at Whidden Gunworks and have custom dies made. They make the dies based off your fire formed brass. I recommend non bushing dies with the neck machined 1 or 2 thou smaller than you want for neck tension then add a step to your reloading process of sizing the dies for neck tension using a mandrel from Sinclair or 21st Century. With the calibers you mentioned hopefully you will be using Lapua brass. They make these in bushing dies. Just be aware that you will not resize entire neck with bushing dies. The only way to do that is to use Neil Jones or David Tubbs dies that have a combo neck/shoulder bushing. Good luck & Happy New Year! [/QUOTE]
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