Neck Sizing Dies

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They do nothing better than a std. FL set can do for you. Unless you turn your necks, or sort them by neck thickness. I`d stay away from them, just buy a good set of Redding FL and don`t look back.
 
I load my most accurate loads with a regular RCBS FL size die,,,but I can see where if you had a match bbl with tight neck that it would be a must have
 
I use one on a couple of calibers for target rifles. Both are tight necked chambers. The biggest advantage I see is just that you can work the brass a little less than with regular dies and brass will last a little longer without annealing. Brass worked in a standard die is going to split in the neck sooner. With standard brass you really need to use an inside expander after necking down so the only gain is in how much the brass is worked.
 
this may be to much for the average reloader,,but when I had a VSSF 308,I had a lot of time on my hands then,,this is the experiment I did,,if I remember correct,,

I removed the expander plug from the fl size die,,and sized a case,,I measured the inside of the neck and got something like .302,,,what I did was turned the necks down from .018 to .013,,then I sized one of those cases and measured the inside of the neck and got .307..after all that I put the expander plug back in and when I sized the cases you could just barely feel the expander pull back through the neck,,

instead of getting a bushing die to fit the brass I turned the brass to fit the die,,,it worked in that rifle so well that I shot the same 200 cases 20 times ,,190 Berger VLD and IMR 4350 would shoot lights out
 
Yes, It looked to me like you would definately have to sort by neck thickness for that bushing system to work. I think I'll stick w/ std. f.L. and neck dies for now on my next project. Thanks for replies, all!! I shot a lot 30 years ago and not so much the last 15yrs or so. But I'm back now :) Changing the subject, I do love my Wilson bullet seaters, though!
 
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Wilson is all I use on my 6BR`s and have sent off blanks to be chambered with my reamer for 6Dashers, 6BRX`s 6/47Lapua`s. Cannot beat a Wilson seater. I have several for hunting calibers too. Favorite way to do business.
 

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