Head space gauge
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
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RE: Head space gauge
If you mean this, https://www.hornady.com/shop/?ps_session=7520f964c626dcf603ce3e31244c8e67&p age=shop%2Fbrowse&category_id=4ffc0a8772783e83 440ac87ed0c3ee5b Then yes I use one. I have had one for a few years and I would be lost without it. It is the best way I know of to set up your FL dies.
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Head space gauge
ORIGINAL: steve4102
If you mean this, https://www.hornady.com/shop/?ps_session=7520f964c626dcf603ce3e31244c8e67&p age=shop%2Fbrowse&category_id=4ffc0a8772783e83 440ac87ed0c3ee5b Then yes I use one. I have had one for a few years and I would be lost without it. It is the best way I know of to set up your FL dies.
If you mean this, https://www.hornady.com/shop/?ps_session=7520f964c626dcf603ce3e31244c8e67&p age=shop%2Fbrowse&category_id=4ffc0a8772783e83 440ac87ed0c3ee5b Then yes I use one. I have had one for a few years and I would be lost without it. It is the best way I know of to set up your FL dies.
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Head space gauge
Got my Hornady head space kit and for the first time in my very short reloading career I have my FLS die properly set for head space for the caliber I am reloading now. I have my FLS die set to bump the shoulder back 0.001" now. I checked some of my cases that were sized without the head space bushing to set the die properlyand the shoulders were bumped back about 0.005" and some even more. I suspected some head space issues because I was getting primers that were not what you'd call flat but flatten a tiny bit without any other signs to suspect high pressures of any kind so everythng I had read said to check for excessive head spacing. The new gauge is a handy little thing.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Federal Way, WA
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RE: Head space gauge
I jumped on the bandwagon to with the Hornady Headspace thing and learned a few things about my die and expander. I would bump the shoulder back -.002 and when the expander ball was pulled through the neckand some would read+.002 or more. Meaning the expander ball was pulling the shoulderout past beforeI sized it. I would resize it again andafter the second time it would be bumbed back to-.002.This gauge let me set the shoulder back equally on each case.