Post by picklehead on Jul 6, 2018 18:04:32 GMT -5
Yep and have a thing of it. Don't care for it at all. What you had was better but I'm still stuck in my ways. I don't care to trim cases and if you put a little of the C&H ( that ive ran out of ) or the RCBS case lube on a Q-Tip and wipe around THE INSIDE of the neck and keep the expander ball clean,, its a world of differ. Smooth as can be and necks hardly ever stretch. Try it with 10 pieces of fired brass. All brass has to be the same trim length. Size 5 with dry lube and measure the OAL. Size the other five, with wet or oil type lube and there will be .002 to .008 differ.
I never load spooky accurate rounds or long range rounds, unless I do this. I can see it on some neck sizing without a expander button but not with a regular FLS die. All you doing is pulling hard on the neck, and in return, stretching it out further and creating run out or cocked neck. You seen that I never use the set screws for locking rings on my FLS dies, also. I don't trust 7/8-14 threads and set my dies with a case in the shell holder , on the full up stroke and get the case sized to fit the chamber , and then run the lock ring down on the up stroke when things are prefect and hand tighten or use a wrench. No set screw used and just my way of doing things. I noticed that you don't care much for set screws either , unless its a seating die .
Seating die can be done the same and creates less problems. This is why high dollar gauges, will drive you nuts and I have them too. A man can spend a small fortune on Sinclair stuff and I feel like its the best, but really no need for them. Some oil type lubes doesn't mix well with powder and I always tumble OR, wipe it out , or put the cases in a vinegar bath, to remove it. This is why it takes me hours to load a few boxes of good stuff. The case prep center will knock some time off though and you seen how I roll. Sip on a beer and don't get in a hurry over nothing. I did assemble some spitty shooting creedmoor rounds and blame that on the last minute bull crap new horn brass I bought.
I knew damn well if they shot 3 inches at your 300 yard target, they was trash. Some idiotic JA, didn't have the gun put together right also. Not sure who that was but think it was ME. Don't tell anyone that part .
I never load spooky accurate rounds or long range rounds, unless I do this. I can see it on some neck sizing without a expander button but not with a regular FLS die. All you doing is pulling hard on the neck, and in return, stretching it out further and creating run out or cocked neck. You seen that I never use the set screws for locking rings on my FLS dies, also. I don't trust 7/8-14 threads and set my dies with a case in the shell holder , on the full up stroke and get the case sized to fit the chamber , and then run the lock ring down on the up stroke when things are prefect and hand tighten or use a wrench. No set screw used and just my way of doing things. I noticed that you don't care much for set screws either , unless its a seating die .
Seating die can be done the same and creates less problems. This is why high dollar gauges, will drive you nuts and I have them too. A man can spend a small fortune on Sinclair stuff and I feel like its the best, but really no need for them. Some oil type lubes doesn't mix well with powder and I always tumble OR, wipe it out , or put the cases in a vinegar bath, to remove it. This is why it takes me hours to load a few boxes of good stuff. The case prep center will knock some time off though and you seen how I roll. Sip on a beer and don't get in a hurry over nothing. I did assemble some spitty shooting creedmoor rounds and blame that on the last minute bull crap new horn brass I bought.
I knew damn well if they shot 3 inches at your 300 yard target, they was trash. Some idiotic JA, didn't have the gun put together right also. Not sure who that was but think it was ME. Don't tell anyone that part .