Thread: Neck sizing

Greetings@Kelton,
After over four decades of neck sizing most of my handloads I have now moved to FL sizing for all of my full power loads. Light loads for my old soldiers are still neck sized. I am using the Redding competition shell holders to set the shoulder bump for most loads. I have run into one problem with this as both sets of FL dies for the 6.5x55, one of them new Redding dies, set the shoulder back too far. Using the +0.010 shell holder bumps the shoulder a little more than the accepted 0.002 in my T3. This leaves the cases slightly shorter than new Lapua brass and far too short for my M38 and a friends Ruger 77. I was a little grumpy about this as it appears that the US is using different chamber dimensions than Europe likely due to their usual arrogance and contempt for things not invented in the US.
Regards Grandpamac.