Reload 204 Ruger with 223 Dies?

jkpq45 · December 17, 2012, 01:58 PM

I've heard whispers around the 'net that a piece can be changed on the Lee Collet Neck Sizing Die for .223 and it can be used for loading 204 Ruger.

Any truth to that? I'm trying to get set up for 204 and am cheap, so don't want to buy new dies :-).

Thanks,
jkpq45

hounddawg · December 17, 2012, 03:41 PM

Don't believe everything you read on the net. Compare these two drawings

http://www.saami.org/pubresources/cc...04%20Ruger.pdf

http://www.saami.org/pubresources/cc...0Remington.pdf

The dies are a bargain, the shell holder is the same and using a .223 seating die would be fine. I use my .308 Forster micrometer seating die on my .260. Oh and if this is going on a AR platform get a full length sizer

m&p45acp10+1 · December 17, 2012, 06:08 PM

The extra price of the Deluxe die set is not that much more. Oh and I am speaking from the stand point of a guy that is beyond being cheap. I am a chronicly broke guy. Buy the right one from the get go. It will save you more in the long run.

December 17, 2012, 01:58 PM	#1
jkpq45 Junior Member Join Date: September 28, 2012 Posts: 5	Reload 204 Ruger with 223 Dies? I've heard whispers around the 'net that a piece can be changed on the Lee Collet Neck Sizing Die for .223 and it can be used for loading 204 Ruger. Any truth to that? I'm trying to get set up for 204 and am cheap, so don't want to buy new dies :-). Thanks, jkpq45

December 17, 2012, 03:41 PM	#2
hounddawg Senior Member Join Date: March 1, 2009 Posts: 760	Don't believe everything you read on the net. Compare these two drawings http://www.saami.org/pubresources/cc...04%20Ruger.pdf http://www.saami.org/pubresources/cc...0Remington.pdf The dies are a bargain, the shell holder is the same and using a .223 seating die would be fine. I use my .308 Forster micrometer seating die on my .260. Oh and if this is going on a AR platform get a full length sizer __________________ Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan

December 17, 2012, 06:08 PM	#3
m&p45acp10+1 Senior Member Join Date: May 3, 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 3,141	The extra price of the Deluxe die set is not that much more. Oh and I am speaking from the stand point of a guy that is beyond being cheap. I am a chronicly broke guy. Buy the right one from the get go. It will save you more in the long run. __________________ No matter how many times you do it and nothing happens it only takes something going wrong one time to kill you.