Big Country, forgive, I was responding to the post below:

"I have modified the bottom of dies so that head space has matched my rifle before. But dies are too cheap to be opening them up at the neck". RWK did not say what caliber he was refering to in the first post other than 243 and 257.

I did say it is not necessary to grind the bottom of a die, lower the deck height of a shell holder or purchase small base dies.

A custom die is not cheap, a die that is purchased at a reasonable price does not make it cheap or diminish the quality, I need a die that will size the body and a small part of the shoulder, my time and $10.00 for a set of dies made that possible.

I am also chambering a M1917 barrelwith a chamber that uses the case dimentions of the 7MM Remington Mag,as you said, dies are not expensive, I will make a sizer die using a 7MM Remington Mag..

F. Guffey