Forester neck honed die

[robbor]

What's your experience with sending your dies to forester to have the necks honed out to eliminate over neck sizing and reduce tension?

 

[Stumpy1]

Mine has been great. It looks like it is $26 per die now, but that includes shipping.
They have always been spot on the dimension I wanted.

Frank

 

[Andy Work]

I've been pleased with mine.

 

[dstoenner]

They are awesome and when you run them without the sizing button you get cases that are 90% or more .001 runout. Best money i ever spent

David

 

[marchboom]

Had 3 dies honed and they all were done quickly and the new neck diameters were precise. Forster dies have always given very low runout.

 

[Murray Brook]

I have had my 6mm BR die neck honed out to .265. Works great. I advise you to speak to one of their tech first. They give great advice.

 

[Ranger188]

No worries, first class job done. Just make sure of the size you want.
Can't add material back. lol

 

[paulT]

Fantastic dies and products from Forster
I use my Honed Forster FL sizer die for Ftr Competition shooting
Sizing is consistant with regularly less than one thousand runout of loaded match ammo
Exellent products & Service from Forster.

 

[nwmnbowhunter]

Mine was exact size but non concentric.

 

[nksmfamjp]

Mine was exact size but non concentric.

Care to explain. How was the concentricity of the die measured?

 

[dstoenner]

Mine was exact size but non concentric.

I have 3 done and had 0 issues. If you do not turn your necks then yes your cases can come out not concentric.

The reason i went with the Forster die was i had a 6br whidden die with redding neck bushings. Changed the bushing from .265 to .264 and all of a sudden my cases were wonky. I traced it to the hole in the bushing was crooked. Go figure. This made it so i never had to worry again. If they worked at beginning they will still be working at the end

David

 

[varget204]

Very pleased with my Forster 6BRA FL sizing die,case necks are .266

 

[nwmnbowhunter]

Care to explain. How was the concentricity of the die measured?

I am not an expert....

I have a sinclair runout Guage.

I tried floating die, locking it down, decapping pin in and out.

Straightest I could get was 0.003.

Bullets seated more crooked than that

I can usually get basically zero runout on outside of neck with my other dies.

Never had problem with the regular non honed forster dies.

 

[SeabeeKen]

Ive had several issues with redding bushings. Wont touch em again

 

[Dave M.]

Ive had several issues with redding bushings. Wont touch em again

SAC bushings are spot on.

 

[SeabeeKen]

SAC bushings are spot on.

I've had good results with RCBS, Whidden and wilson. Wont touch a redding anymore. Found redding bushing holes off center and wrong size far too often. ymmv

 

[Murray Brook]

What would be an acceptable tolerance on a bushing. Reason I ask is because I have a 6mm br Redding Type-S FL die with a 265 bushing and found I was getting neck run-out with it. My bushing measures on 3 spots .1177 and .1182 on the last (4'th) spot. Would you think that is ok or out of spec.