Texas Sheepdawg wrote:Hoot wrote:plant_one wrote:honestly a SB die for this caliber seems a bit much.
i can understand the need for one when normalizing military brass that may have been fired in a MG like 5.56 or 7.62 .... but for a caliber like this it seems.... excessive. My concern is over working the brass and shortening the longevity of it.
Actually I modded one of my shell holders (cheaper than an entire die) to allow the resizing die to come down a little further and it made some cases with too much growth, chamber again in my AR based upper, where they used to bind a little bit going in.
Hoot
How you do that?
I carefully chucked it in my lathe, making sure it was trued and using a carbide insert tool, shaved it down as far as I could go and still have a reasonable amount of "meat" left. I don't have it at work with me but IIRC, I shortened it something like .075 or so. By pushing the case further up into the resizing die, I get a little more neck tension for my trouble as well. Not leaps and bounds of difference, but I could feel it when I seated a bullet. A lesser degree of the old
TightNeck experiment, from back in 2012. Visually, its easy to tell it from an un-modded one, so you don't mix them up.
Hoot