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Need advice choosing an arbor press

With all those blasters going off around you (magnum pistols and short AR's with brakes) should there be problems weighing loads? My shootin' buddy has a compact digital scale he's not using, so I won't be troubled trying to level my beam scale and read it.

Not trying to be a hard-head about advice, but I'd still rather neck-size only as that has cut my group size in half on a couple of varmint rifles. I'll, of course, change to full-length sizing if it takes entirely too much pressure to close the bolt, but the Savage 11 has pretty good leverage and it's just a 6BR.

Ass-um-ing a concentric chamber, won't neck-sizing (only) give me a cartridge that is an exact fit for the chamber? Am I overlooking something here?
 
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You have to do what you think is best. For general all around shooting with factory rifles I've had good results using a Lee collet die and a redding body die for when I needed to get the brass sized down a bit. Many will argue that it doesn't work, but I let the targets speak to me.

For my custom guns, I full length size with dies that closely match the chamber. I want my competition guns to operate as smoothly as possible with no upset in the bags caused by a case that is in need of full length sizing.

I reload at the range just about every time. I may take some primed cases with me and drop powder and seat bullets, or I may do the whole reloading deal right on the spot with a Partner press for sizing and a Harrell's arbor press for seating.
 
I intended to neck size, insert a primer and partially seat a bullet at home. I have two questions, though:

1. Does anyone handle loose powder at a private/club range (i.e., work up loads)? There's nothing in our rules that prohibit it, but is it unsafe with people shooting near you (not too close, my range has more than adequate space between individual benches? I ask because my generation didn't have as many safety rules as society in general and ranges especially have now.

2. I read somewhere (and now can't find the article) that neck sizing (only) the 6BR would cause a "donut" of brass to form near the neck/case juncture. Has anyone else found that true?

Another option for range reloading is to pre-measure charges at home. I use little 1 dram glass vials with screw tops to hold charges (for 6BR - large cases may require larger vials.) Some people just toss those in a bag; I found a test tube holder works pretty well for transport (I'll link everything at the bottom if I find what I ordered.)

That gets rid of the measure and the scale at the range, leaving sizing, priming and seating as the only things left to address. all of which you can do the the arbor press and LE Wilson dies.

As far as safety, does your range allow black powder? I suspect there's a lot more risk from that igniting versus smokeless powder igniting. A lot more sparks and such from black powder shooter vs smokeless shooters, too.

I think the donut forms when you turn necks and full length size enough to push the unturned portion into the neck/shoulder junction. Seating short of the neck/shoulder junction makes that moot (assuming you can do that.)

Vials: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XN5N5R6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

Trays: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TS8MMJK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

Note: I cut the legs between the layers of the trays down a bit to make it easier to grab the vials.
 
Sorry, I've been gone from here over a year, I've been plagued with health problems ending, I hope, with a crushed L-1 vertebra in a in early September 2023 household fall. I'm still not off the walker, you don't heal as fast in your 70s. Still haven't gotten the scope mounted on the 6BR, but maybe soon - the shop is downstairs and unheated, so it may be spring.

Once I've paid off the hospital for three hospitalizations this fall, I'm going to an arbor press both for accuracy and so I can reload at my computer desk instead of trucking down to the cold basement. I guess the press is a good way to start, as I can't use anything else without it. Any recommendations?
I have a Basic Century 21. It works well for me. I use it with a Wilson micrometer 6.5X 47 seating die. I'm not loading as much 6.5X47 and when I do I just use my Redding competition seating die. If you are interested, I would sell the arbor press for $100.00 shipped to the lower 48 states.
 
I have a Basic Century 21. It works well for me. I use it with a Wilson micrometer 6.5X 47 seating die. I'm not loading as much 6.5X47 and when I do I just use my Redding competition seating die. If you are interested, I would sell the arbor press for $100.00 shipped to the lower 48 states.

Buy that.
 
I have a Basic Century 21. It works well for me. I use it with a Wilson micrometer 6.5X 47 seating die. I'm not loading as much 6.5X47 and when I do I just use my Redding competition seating die. If you are interested, I would sell the arbor press for $100.00 shipped to the lower 48 states.
I'll take it even though I bought the K&M, PM sent!
 

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