Engineering101
Well-Known Member
I have a universal deprimer from Lee. It works on everything I have from 223 to 338. All you have to change is the shell holder to deprime any case be it rifle or pistol.
Not quite as "universal" since it requires extra parts (mandrels) but nevertheless very cool is my universal neck expander from 21st Century Shooting. It is a die that holds interchangeable mandrels of different diameters that then can expand a neck for the desired neck tension. I have mandrels for all my calibers that are 0.001" and 0.002" under bullet diameter. Of course, the neck has to first be shrunk to an inside diameter less than the mandrel for the mandrel to engage the neck.
That is the step in the process where there is something missing, the universal neck sizer to shrink the neck diameter prior to expanding doesn't appear to exist - or does it? All that would be required is a short fat die that would hold neck bushings in any of the various diameters. Redding sells these bushings for use in their Type S neck sizer dies. When I say short and fat, this die would have to let any case be it long or short, fat or thin reach the neck bushing. I'm thinking a Type S neck sizer die for a short fat case, like say a 300 WSM might come close to what I'm talking about. With the right neck bushings such a die should be almost a universal neck sizer. It wouldn't work on a 223 and similar really short cartridges as they are too short but it should work with most other cartridges. You would have to set the length to the bushing (by screwing the die in and out) depending on the cartridge you were resizing and that might be a pain in the butt - but is seems like it would be doable.
So buy yourself such a die and a selection of appropriate neck sizer bushings and you should be able to neck size everything for which you load without excess work hardening of the brass from overdoing the shrink on the neck. And there are savings to be had in NOT buying a neck sizer die for every cartridge you load.
Of course, if you want to be able to full length resize your brass on occasion, you gotta buy a die for every cartridge.
Anybody see anything I'm missing here?
Not quite as "universal" since it requires extra parts (mandrels) but nevertheless very cool is my universal neck expander from 21st Century Shooting. It is a die that holds interchangeable mandrels of different diameters that then can expand a neck for the desired neck tension. I have mandrels for all my calibers that are 0.001" and 0.002" under bullet diameter. Of course, the neck has to first be shrunk to an inside diameter less than the mandrel for the mandrel to engage the neck.
That is the step in the process where there is something missing, the universal neck sizer to shrink the neck diameter prior to expanding doesn't appear to exist - or does it? All that would be required is a short fat die that would hold neck bushings in any of the various diameters. Redding sells these bushings for use in their Type S neck sizer dies. When I say short and fat, this die would have to let any case be it long or short, fat or thin reach the neck bushing. I'm thinking a Type S neck sizer die for a short fat case, like say a 300 WSM might come close to what I'm talking about. With the right neck bushings such a die should be almost a universal neck sizer. It wouldn't work on a 223 and similar really short cartridges as they are too short but it should work with most other cartridges. You would have to set the length to the bushing (by screwing the die in and out) depending on the cartridge you were resizing and that might be a pain in the butt - but is seems like it would be doable.
So buy yourself such a die and a selection of appropriate neck sizer bushings and you should be able to neck size everything for which you load without excess work hardening of the brass from overdoing the shrink on the neck. And there are savings to be had in NOT buying a neck sizer die for every cartridge you load.
Of course, if you want to be able to full length resize your brass on occasion, you gotta buy a die for every cartridge.
Anybody see anything I'm missing here?
