Thread: More Learnings and Questions Using Redding Competition Shell Holders.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All, I had initially intended to size my 6.5 x 55 cases by setting back from the shell holder and this has worked OK but there is a bit more variation between case length to datum than I would like. This may just be me being OCD but I thought that I could get a bit more precision using the Redding Comp Shell Holders.
Regards Grandpamac.

When you shoot these cases can you tell the difference @grandpamac?

My experience is that there are bigger sources of error in the shooting environment.
Unless you're a benchrest shooter you probably won't the differenc

I'm a minimalist reloader. u
There's many more reloading steps I could do, but until I can shoot more accurately I don't/won't invest the effort.

I mainly reload .308, full length every time, ultrasonic clean, prime, load shoot. Repeat.
Have recently started to trim and anneal when my cases got to 2.025 - 2.030 long after 15 firings. The SAAMI spec is 2.015.