Full case resizing or neck resizing?
01-12-2009 | 12:06 PM
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RE: Full case resizing or neck resizing?
ORIGINAL: eldeguello
I do a partial FL sizing,IF the brass was fired in the rifle I plan to use the ammo in, and/or it will chamber easily before sizing, I just run the cases into the FL die just about one caliber to get enough neck tension to securely hold the new bullet - .3" for .30 caliber, etc.
FL sizing is reserved for cases that are too oversize in some dimension to freely chamber in the rifle they will be used in next.
The less you work the brass, the longer the cases will last.
I do a partial FL sizing,IF the brass was fired in the rifle I plan to use the ammo in, and/or it will chamber easily before sizing, I just run the cases into the FL die just about one caliber to get enough neck tension to securely hold the new bullet - .3" for .30 caliber, etc.
FL sizing is reserved for cases that are too oversize in some dimension to freely chamber in the rifle they will be used in next.
The less you work the brass, the longer the cases will last.
DM
01-12-2009 | 01:33 PM
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RE: Full case resizing or neck resizing?
ORIGINAL: DM
Me too... No fancy guage needed... Just back your die off to get the amount of resizeing you want...
DM
ORIGINAL: eldeguello
I do a partial FL sizing,IF the brass was fired in the rifle I plan to use the ammo in, and/or it will chamber easily before sizing, I just run the cases into the FL die just about one caliber to get enough neck tension to securely hold the new bullet - .3" for .30 caliber, etc.
FL sizing is reserved for cases that are too oversize in some dimension to freely chamber in the rifle they will be used in next.
The less you work the brass, the longer the cases will last.
I do a partial FL sizing,IF the brass was fired in the rifle I plan to use the ammo in, and/or it will chamber easily before sizing, I just run the cases into the FL die just about one caliber to get enough neck tension to securely hold the new bullet - .3" for .30 caliber, etc.
FL sizing is reserved for cases that are too oversize in some dimension to freely chamber in the rifle they will be used in next.
The less you work the brass, the longer the cases will last.
DM
I love metal work. Its one thing a guy can be prescise at and take some sort of pride in being precise. Weather its needed or not. And reloading is part of that. Maybe its just the technical engineer in me, and thats what is required to do my job well. I got a new lab tech in the lab, and he just does things well enough. It drives me nuts and makes me cring. Every job I put him on, he only does it good enough to get by. I realize both ways will make a gun go boom, and you don't need a bench gun to kill a moose at 350 yards. I guess I never understood the "good enough" mentality.
01-16-2009 | 06:24 AM
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RE: Full case resizing or neck resizing?
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
DM, if you would indulge me, I am curious about something. Why do you discourage people from taking this hobby to another level of precision? I see it time and time again.
I love metal work. Its one thing a guy can be prescise at and take some sort of pride in being precise. Weather its needed or not. And reloading is part of that. Maybe its just the technical engineer in me, and thats what is required to do my job well. I got a new lab tech in the lab, and he just does things well enough. It drives me nuts and makes me cring. Every job I put him on, he only does it good enough to get by. I realize both ways will make a gun go boom, and you don't need a bench gun to kill a moose at 350 yards. I guess I never understood the "good enough" mentality.
ORIGINAL: DM
Me too... No fancy guage needed... Just back your die off to get the amount of resizeing you want...
DM
ORIGINAL: eldeguello
I do a partial FL sizing,IF the brass was fired in the rifle I plan to use the ammo in, and/or it will chamber easily before sizing, I just run the cases into the FL die just about one caliber to get enough neck tension to securely hold the new bullet - .3" for .30 caliber, etc.
FL sizing is reserved for cases that are too oversize in some dimension to freely chamber in the rifle they will be used in next.
The less you work the brass, the longer the cases will last.
I do a partial FL sizing,IF the brass was fired in the rifle I plan to use the ammo in, and/or it will chamber easily before sizing, I just run the cases into the FL die just about one caliber to get enough neck tension to securely hold the new bullet - .3" for .30 caliber, etc.
FL sizing is reserved for cases that are too oversize in some dimension to freely chamber in the rifle they will be used in next.
The less you work the brass, the longer the cases will last.
DM
I love metal work. Its one thing a guy can be prescise at and take some sort of pride in being precise. Weather its needed or not. And reloading is part of that. Maybe its just the technical engineer in me, and thats what is required to do my job well. I got a new lab tech in the lab, and he just does things well enough. It drives me nuts and makes me cring. Every job I put him on, he only does it good enough to get by. I realize both ways will make a gun go boom, and you don't need a bench gun to kill a moose at 350 yards. I guess I never understood the "good enough" mentality.
