Whidden 6 Dasher Hydroform die

[Gabe22BR]

Buy you die, destroy brass, bend the stem, cuss yourself, or the die, cause you can’t get perfect brass... then have to shoot them to finish a sharp shoulder..( nutt’n like putting rds a barrel for hell of it,)

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[Spacegunr]

I hydro formed about 100 pcs of Dasher brass when I first started with the Dasher. I beat the press to death. I literally bent the toggle block pin on a Rock Chucker. Water went everywhere. The brass came out terrible. It was a mess. Maybe I wasn't doing it right. I started fire forming with a false shoulder, shooting the ammo in 600 yd matches The fire forming ammo was accurate enough to stay in the x-ring on an MR-1 target.

 

[Ccrider]

I hydro formed about 100 pcs of Dasher brass when I first started with the Dasher. I beat the press to death. I literally bent the toggle block pin on a Rock Chucker. Water went everywhere. The brass came out terrible. It was a mess. Maybe I wasn't doing it right. I started fire forming with a false shoulder, shooting the ammo in 600 yd matches The fire forming ammo was accurate enough to stay in the x-ring on an MR-1 target.

The leather dead blow hammer changes all of this. I bought one off of eBay with a 2 3/4 inch face after being told about them by Dusty. Difference in using a metal hammer and a leather dead blow is day and night.

 

[johara1]

With all that mess and short necks and you still have to shoot them to get them fully formed, but still super short. I will stick to fire forming a perfect cases..... jim

 

[Hprvet#1]

I spoke with a very good shooter that was shooting a dasher on how he fire forms his brass. He just loads regular 6br loads and shoots them. Done.

 

[johara1]

If he is good and told you that, he won't have to worry about you then....... jim

 

[Hprvet#1]

If he is good and told you that, he won't have to worry about

 

[Hprvet#1]

Worry about what? Shooting an 800? Because that’s what it takes to “worry” about me. And you confuse me for someone who would be dumb enough to try something for the first time in a match.

 

[johara1]

Worry about what? Shooting an 800? Because that’s what it takes to “worry” about me. And you confuse me for someone who would be dumb enough to try something for the first time in a match.

So why put something on here that is total BS. A bullet will not hold a case back against the bolt facePlus if you don't use a soft primer it will be worse. Why do you think we work so hard to make good cases trying to hold them back and get a consistent blow length without stretching the case and trying get the same volume ...... jim

 

[Hprvet#1]

Doesn’t Robert Whitley long seat his Bullets and form his dasher brass this way?

 

[Hprvet#1]

I have a whidden die and have ruined a few pieces getting used to hydroforming. It is really not that bad once u get your system down. I also have a lot of experience fire forming my 6mm rat and turbo with the false shoulder. I now keep the hydro form due on the shelf as a back up and prefer to just buy my dasher brass.

 

[comagutsa]

Seems crazy time consuming to seat a used primer in every piece of brass. Do the rounded shoulder corners effect case volume? Do your load development in the rounded shoulder corner cases work with out being tweeted in the fired sharp corner cases?

Takes bugger all to load a used primer, I use my co-ax press to do this .
No the rounded shoulders don't affect case volume
I load test with rounded shoulders and it doesn't effect accuracy.. to test this I worked up a load with fired cases. Then I hydro formed some more and loaded up the load I worked up and fire cases vs hydro formed not fired you couldn't tell a difference
Also over the years doing ladders with hydro formed brass vs fired brass has been the same results

 

[comagutsa]

I hate the thought of hammering away on my press and potentially leaking water all over it just to get my brass hydroformed. Maybe a backup press to go along with the die would help convince me to form my own. Hunts Long Range is also another source for hydro formed brass.

Yep I use an old Lee press for my hydro forming duties

 

[Linko]

whidden dies. great dies I use them a lot for reloading. Tried the hydroforming die, geeze what a pain and a mess. Not to mention when I tried to use that old Lee press I used for hydroforming it was so out of wack I couldn't decap primers!

Had DJ's do the rest. great service and quality.

I have a whidden hydroforming die for sale if anyone is interested.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Im a dj’s fan

 

[PatMiles]

Im a dj’s fan

Smart man!