FA bullet seater in CO-AX

[Fern]

Has anyone used a FA universal seating die on a forester press? Been contemplating for a while on getting one but I’m concerned the height might interfere with the forester handle clearance.
I wish it supported 17/20 but who knows maybe in the future

 

[SeabeeKen]

Iirc it did work in my forster.
One thing i recommend about that die is removing the little pins that hold the bullets. They caused runout in mine. Once removed runout was near zero BUT you will have to run the case neck up to keep bullet from falling thru

 

[Fern]

thanks for the input

 

[358WCF]

Has anyone used a FA universal seating die on a forester press? Been contemplating for a while on getting one but I’m concerned the height might interfere with the forester handle clearance.
I wish it supported 17/20 but who knows maybe in the future

Did you know there are 2 different yoke heights on the Co-Ax, dependent on when they were made? The taller yoke is available from Forster if you have an older press.

 

[Fern]

Mine is a newer one that came with the newer style jaws. At one point I had 3 co ax presses. I didn’notice a difference either way them. One even had a different coating on it which I suspected was maybe older style. Had more links a hard candy red style then the newer powder coat looking one

 

[SSchnd]

using one for 6BRAi works very well once set up with the short stem. In my Coax it is just fine. I do not use the bullet seating window, I still set the bullet on the case mouth and go. Makes excellent rounds.
Like it better than my 223 Ultra Micromicrometer due the stems being so much more beefy and the VLD stem type.

 

[Fern]

Well I ordered it and hopefully works good for my needs