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Which seater die?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 421387" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>buddies of mine talked me into buying the Lee Collet dies a few years back (.223 and 22-250). Could not make them do what they were supposed to be capable of, and found the necks to be distorted. But there's more to this story. I found that if I turned the necks (or used some cases that I would normally run thru a Wilson neck die) the results were fairly good. I still prefer the arbor press for neck sizing if that matters much. I've been working on my own die design that has the case body wrapped before the neck is even touched, but already see that it's going to be a pain to build. But with all fairness to Lee, I did talk with them about these issues and they were very helpfull. I also found out that I'd been better off with one of their custom die sets (still a collet).</p><p> The best body die is one reamed with your chamber reamer (as well as a seater die). An off the shelf die is pretty much generic. I do use the Redding body dies every half dozen of so firings, but with some factory chambers I find they size excessively. They seem to do Savage chambers better than most. </p><p> </p><p> I have found that when backing off the micrometer dial on all of my Forster seaters there seems to be about .0015" of backlash (say about .002"), but I've also found the Reddings seem to run about .005". Not a lot, but a good thing to know with each and every seater die you use. Hornaday was so bad that I gave up on them. </p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 421387, member: 25383"] buddies of mine talked me into buying the Lee Collet dies a few years back (.223 and 22-250). Could not make them do what they were supposed to be capable of, and found the necks to be distorted. But there's more to this story. I found that if I turned the necks (or used some cases that I would normally run thru a Wilson neck die) the results were fairly good. I still prefer the arbor press for neck sizing if that matters much. I've been working on my own die design that has the case body wrapped before the neck is even touched, but already see that it's going to be a pain to build. But with all fairness to Lee, I did talk with them about these issues and they were very helpfull. I also found out that I'd been better off with one of their custom die sets (still a collet). The best body die is one reamed with your chamber reamer (as well as a seater die). An off the shelf die is pretty much generic. I do use the Redding body dies every half dozen of so firings, but with some factory chambers I find they size excessively. They seem to do Savage chambers better than most. I have found that when backing off the micrometer dial on all of my Forster seaters there seems to be about .0015" of backlash (say about .002"), but I've also found the Reddings seem to run about .005". Not a lot, but a good thing to know with each and every seater die you use. Hornaday was so bad that I gave up on them. gary [/QUOTE]
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