Thread: Lee Collet Neck Dies - New "feature"

Noticed something a bit strange with my 6.5 Creed cases and did some online research.

Turns out that around 2019 Lee made a change to their collet neck dies, where it now does not size the last mm or so of the case mouth. It effectively means your case comes out of the neck die looking like the case mouth is slightly flared. The portion of the neck that does not get squeezed down against the mandrel remains at fire-formed size...

The reason they provide for this is to make it easier to seat cast projectiles.

Anyway, if you see this happening with a collet neck die, now you know you have the "modern" version of the collet...