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Old 06-03-2005 | 03:19 AM
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From: A flat lander lost in the mountains of Northern,AZ
Default RE: When to full length resize

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I definatly would after 3 firings. I am not a big advocate of a neck sizer. sometimes cause more problems than good with neck runout. I do like the lee collet die however.

After 2 or so firings you can get very tight chambering and cause you some grief in field conditions. I have heard many times people saying, "there's never a need to full length" and on more than one occassion, it took them a bad experience in the field during cold weather or hot weather, for them to quickly change thier tune.

I am hunter first and formost. I usually can get great results Partial Full Length sizing. If I can't I do some work on the gun.

What happens, is when fired, brass does expand to the chamber but springs back some. After 2 or three firings, of being expanded, it bonds better and better to the chamber.

HDW, very well know fact my friend. Surprised you have seen or heard it.

As you know BC i use the lee collet neck sizer dies, with them I havent had to use my FL die yet to reset the shoulders on my 308 and 30-06 loads. However my hunting loads are FL sized just incase i did run into chambering/ejecting problems.


edit: I must have assumed firstshot was using a collet die.........
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