January 17, 2014, 11:00 AM | #26 | |
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If you have a FL die where its expander, decaping pin, and its adjusting stem are of one piece construction
I've seen those types of dies. I believe I may even have one or two of them myself. My thought's towards your comment (quote below) To create a die for the sole purpose of resizing brass with live primers previously installed. Isn't a situation you'll encounter all that much in reloading. But if you feel its necessary to have such a die. By all means do what you think is appropriate. Quote:
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January 17, 2014, 11:29 AM | #27 |
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A good investment would be a collet type bullet puller. I like the looks of the Hornady, but the RCBS was on the LGS shelf so that's what I went with...
When I want to change a powder charge in rifle cartridges, I run the bullet into the collet till it stops at the case mouth. Tighten the collet and pull the bullet. Adjust the powder charge and re-seat the bullet with the Bullet Puller. No re-sizing and the bullet is at the same seating depth. |
January 17, 2014, 02:02 PM | #28 | |
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January 17, 2014, 03:43 PM | #29 |
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I use the RCBS bullet puller. It's awesome and works flawlessly. Worth the extra money.
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January 19, 2014, 04:55 PM | #30 |
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You should be able to back the depriming assembly out so it resizes the neck without punching the primer.
Play around with it to see what happens before wasting all those primed cases
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January 19, 2014, 05:21 PM | #31 |
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I tried that and it wouldn't work. The expander blocked the area where the neck is resized.
I just broke the decapper tip off and resized them normally without removing the primer. I have a couple extra mandrels. I'm sure this wont be the last time I need to resize without removing the primer. |
January 20, 2014, 09:47 AM | #32 | |
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