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Small Base Die - Worth the Money?
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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 2009741" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>Highdrum you can easily take a couple thou out of a chamber with just fine sandpaper. Just spin it up in a lathe and hit it with 600 grit and oil and keep moving the paper in and out I would do 30 sec and measure at a time. If you think about it most factory dies work with factory chambers because factory chambers are usually bigger than custom Chambers. It's not the reamer so much for this fact as it is the precision of alignment of the bore that custom smiths do. So essentially by making your chamber a couple thou bigger your making your die a couple thou smaller. It's easy to take a little more out of your chamber but pretty dang hard to put some back in the die. I've only had to do bigger chamber dimensions on 2 cartridges one was a 6slr that I was running lapua brass in. Reamer was spec for rem/win and another on a 35 wildcat I do based on a full length 223 case. Yes I was building 350 legends long before Winchester. Except I build mine on 358 barrels so you have the full lines of hunting bullets available. I also throat mine out so they are 2.8 inches long and they go 400fps faster. Mine was designed to go into a bolt action and doesn't have to fit in an ar mag. My first reamer was a little too tight and needed some more body taper so I just sanded it till it worked and sent a chamber cast to jgs for the new one.</p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 2009741, member: 38048"] Highdrum you can easily take a couple thou out of a chamber with just fine sandpaper. Just spin it up in a lathe and hit it with 600 grit and oil and keep moving the paper in and out I would do 30 sec and measure at a time. If you think about it most factory dies work with factory chambers because factory chambers are usually bigger than custom Chambers. It's not the reamer so much for this fact as it is the precision of alignment of the bore that custom smiths do. So essentially by making your chamber a couple thou bigger your making your die a couple thou smaller. It's easy to take a little more out of your chamber but pretty dang hard to put some back in the die. I've only had to do bigger chamber dimensions on 2 cartridges one was a 6slr that I was running lapua brass in. Reamer was spec for rem/win and another on a 35 wildcat I do based on a full length 223 case. Yes I was building 350 legends long before Winchester. Except I build mine on 358 barrels so you have the full lines of hunting bullets available. I also throat mine out so they are 2.8 inches long and they go 400fps faster. Mine was designed to go into a bolt action and doesn't have to fit in an ar mag. My first reamer was a little too tight and needed some more body taper so I just sanded it till it worked and sent a chamber cast to jgs for the new one. Shep [/QUOTE]
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