I order a custom stem from Whidden. I send them a bullet and in about a week I have a stem.What is the grinding process you use on your seating stems to match your bullets?
Ben
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I order a custom stem from Whidden. I send them a bullet and in about a week I have a stem.What is the grinding process you use on your seating stems to match your bullets?
Ben
For which die?I order a custom stem from Whidden. I send them a bullet and in about a week I have a stem.
For their micrometer top seating die. Whidden offers a bunch of stems for popular bullets or you can have one made for a specific bullet.For which die?
I have purchased the Hornady gauge that corrects and wound up returning it when the lightbulb went off in my head after reading at this site that all I am accomplishing was pushing the bullet one way at one end and the opposite way on the other end. It ain't fixing anything.
The first thing I notice about the Redding is the gauge is at the opposite end and your case would point the other direction I like that being left-handed mine work fine but are slightly uncomfortable I think I would like the Redding better I have they RCBS case master nowI have both runout gauges pictured below and the Hornady gauge has the ability to straighten the neck. BUT if you need to bend the case neck to reduce neck runout then you have a problem with the case, your sizing die or seating die.
So fix the problem BEFORE you need to bend the neck and find out where the runout is coming from.
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Below Redding has a new concentricity gauge that looks interesting and better than the ones I have now.
Redding Offers New Slant-Bed Concentricity Checker
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2020/02/redding-offers-new-slant-bed-concentricity-checker/
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The first thing I notice about the Redding is the gauge is at the opposite end and your case would point the other direction I like that being left-handed mine work fine but are slightly uncomfortable I think I would like the Redding better I have they RCBS case master now
I do see them now that you mention itIf you look at the holes in the Redding base of the new gauge the gauge can to either end of the gauge. Meaning left or right handed reloaders.
Thats good news ,now I can start measureing the length and diameters of each grain of powder........lolI may be the minority here, I’ve shot up to .007 side by side against.0015 with ZERO effect on accuracy.
So I just moved on to more important things.
J