Arbor Press Question

[signut]

Just received a new Wison Seating Die , came with rifle purchase. Having never used one, I take it I need some form of expensive arbor press, most likely made of pure unobtanium, to use this die. Any suggestions ? Looks like a very nice piece of toolwork .

 

[BaconFat]

Go jump on this and you're almost all set: http://forum.accurateshooter.com/index.php?topic=3800244.0. Whether you want to use an arbor press or not is a different matter.

 

[Preacher]

You can use a plain old leather mallet to seat the bullets, it's no big deal.
I knew one old guy that used his vise to do it, he would set the bullet in the case, slide it all into the die, and insert it into his vise and crank the handle until it stopped..
Another guy rigged up a lever looking thing made of wood to do it.....
Tons of ways to skin that cat.............

 

[STS]

Seat the bullet with the heal of your hand. Works well and costs nothing.

 

[Terry]

Seat the bullet with the heal of your hand. Works well and costs nothing.

+1

 

[savagedasher]

Harrell's Precision all his products are great.Their made with Brass pinion gear
Good shooting Larry

 

[averh2o]

Jim, I have an arbor press you can borrow if you want.

 

[A j shooter]

I use harber freight arber press $39 . Works great for other stuff to

 

[mikecr]

I'm happy with Sinclair's offering in arbor press.
I can't imagine bullet seating with a Wilson and mallet being very precise at all. I can picture so much variance in seating forces causing wedging variance with the stem, and higher loaded runout..

 

[signut]

AverH2O, I might take you up on that. In the meantime i tried my 6BR Redding seater and guess what : it works perfectly on the 6mmSLR ( same neck, same shoulder, just a little bit less case support but checked on the Hornaday concentricity gauge and they are within .0015. Good enough for this lowly long range Master....

 

[fdshuster]

Just a comment about using Wilson seater dies/arbor press and 7/8" x14 screw-in dies. I have and use both, for 6ppc & 6BR. Arbor press is the Sinclair & seater dies are my favorite, the Forster Benchrest with the micrometer top seater.

Cannot tell a bit of difference in concintricity of the loaded rounds after checking them with my Sinclair concintricity gauge.

If a loaded round has excess runout it will have the same runout whether the bullet was seated using the Wilson or the Forster. Runout is caused by defects in the brass case and what type of seater die is used has nothing to do with it.

The main purpose of an arbor press is to allow bullet seating without having a heavyweight bolt-to-the-bench cast iron press, like the RCBS Rockchucker or others. Arbor press gained favor with those loading on the range.

 

[mikecr]

INLINE seater die.
The advantage is that no press misalignments or play are introduced into seating.

But with any there is still a gain in 2 stage seating with 180deg between them -for runout.
This would be bypassed of course with whacking home using a hammer instead of a press.