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"ive always assumed it was close the ram till the shell holder meets die, for every step. .... i admit i dont reload yet but i will be. "
When you start, one of the first things you're going to learn is that no one can give your rote 'instructions', 1-2-3, to set up dies to do anything. All any instructions can do is get you close enough to start. Different instruction writers explain things differently because it can be started in different ways.
Dies and shell holders have a manufactoring tolerace range of a few thousanths of an inch so they vary a tad, presses vary, cases themselves have different springback qualities. No manufactor can possibly tell me precisely how to set my rig up for anything.
Bottom line is to grasp what you're trying to accomplish and then set the dies so that happens. And it rarely happens by simply screwing any die down to touch a shell holder; in a seater that's usually a fast way to ruin cases.
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