Exactly. A perfect candidate for the competition shellholder set....Allows proper sizing and still gives you contact with the shellholder, if that is important to you. I like contact, as it allows cam-over in my T-7 press.
Keith, are you using the type S Redding dies?
Am I missing something here??? I use a Redding body die to resize my brass, including shoulder bump and wouldn't ever consider pushing the brass into another sizing die?????
I also have been thinking about that statement, and it also makes no sense to me either. I use a Redding body die for case sizing. My case head space is about 0.002” just where the bolt drops freely. My body die effects both the diameter and the case head space. Not just the case diameter.
Notice that Forster sells Match sizing dies for gas guns with more bump than the sizing die for bolt guns in the same cartridge. Results are not achieved by going through the motions but by using the equipment intelligently.
No, they sell a match die— singular— for .308. That’s the extent of their shorter match die catalog.
I also like the shim approach which I achieve via feeler gauges.
Same here. Collet neck size followed by Redding Body die to bump shoulder 2 thou. I have the competition shell holder sets but they are not necessary.
I agree with you but try finding a old style collet neck sizer in 6mm Creedmoor. Very few old style made and the guys that have them will not part with them.
I have 3 different reloading presses. If you don't make contact with the shellholder then you get varying amounts of sizing of the case in length to shoulder (varying headspace on the case). Happens with all 3 presses. When you make contact with the shellholder, headspace of the case suddenly becomes very consistent. Only press I know of that will allow this consistency without contacting the shellholder is the Forster coax. One of them is on my must buy list when I am allowed. Both my Redding body dies size 0.010" shorter than a go gauge, so I have to use the +10 Redding Comp shellholder to get my cases sized to go gauge length. I insist my gunsmith headspaces barrels to 0 (go gauge length) not somewhere between go and no go gauge length. I do anneal after each firing.
How exactly did they change them?
My comment ; and conclusions were based on my own experience with a Redding Body Die , part #75155 , and the shell holder set . Die did nothing for shoulder-bump , but did make the case .006-.008 longer , and took all diameters .001-.002 smaller . In going through the entire process of trying to make it work , I trashed 25 cases . Then I got smart and put it in the cabinet , and had Whidden make me a F/L Bushing die . End of that story . When I called Redding and ask what the body Die was designed to do , I was told it was to primarily reduce all case diameters to SAAMI specs due to chambers that had been expanded diametrically from wear , or over-pressured loads . And just so some "Newbie' doesn't get the wrong idea , You still use a Collet Neck Die ? Didn't think anyone did that anymore .
