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Help appears to be on the way zimmer.

Glad to have brightened your day Zimmer,
I have been thinking how bat moon crazy some in Auckland and Waikato must be getting being locked up week after week. I was expecting the pox to spread to...

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As previously mentioned I borrowed the no 10 competition shell holder kit from my son and spent spare moments over the last few weeks prepping all of the .223 Rem cases...

Greetings Micky Duck and all,
Tried to expand the necks with my .30-40 dies today. These have an elliptical expander button that is supposed to pass through the necks. This expanded the necks a bit...

Greetings Micky,
I use them that way all the time. Often the last step after neck sizing in a Lee Loader. I had struck the problem once before when sizing .303 cases to .30-40 Krag. There was a...

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I expected to learn a thing or two playing with the shell holders and have not been disappointed. The learning path has just lurched down another rabbit hole as reported next.
I had...

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This shell holder mis match has fascinated me, probably the previously mentioned OCD, so I have done some measurements. The rim recess on the Redding no 1 shell holder was about...

Greetings Zimmer and all,
I guess that there are so many different head and rim sizes that the die manufacturers have to group them for the shell holders. This causes some anomalies. If they didn't...

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My old Redding shell holder charts list the no 1 for the 6.5 x 55 but the current chart lists a no 7 so perhaps they have changed their specs. The no 7 only seems to be listed for...

Greetings andyanimal31,
I tried my Norma and Lapua cases in the Redding No 1 shell holder set but they don't fit. Some US made cases may do so as they are often undersize. I have ordered a Redding...

Greetings Jhon,
Somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered that two different shell holders were listed for the 7 x57 and .257 Roberts. An old Handloaders digest listed the RCBS no 3 and no 11...

Greetings Micky,
Different makes of shell holders have different numbers for cartridges. A no2 RCBS shell holder will fit the 6.5 x 55 but not a no2 Lyman. Other makes are different or the same...

Thanks for the tip zimmer.
I will check as I size the balance of my oversize cases.
Regards Grandpamac.

Greetings Jhon,
I think that the answer in my case is soft draughtsman's hands. You are right it does take feel to get the same pressure and hence reading but I can get repeatable readings down to...

Greetings Magnetite,
Definitely an option which I use for my 6.5 x 55. For multiple rifles like my .308's it becomes tiresome. Even 1/16th of a turn of the die is over 0.1mm or .004 inches. I guess...

Greetings again All,
After my post on Tuesday I was back at my bench measuring the length to datum of .308 cases including new and fired cases from my rifles. Yes, yes this sounds OCD to many of you...

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A miserable day in HB today. Yes we do get them. Firewood collection and lawn mowing is on hold so I have been having a play with the Redding shell holder sets and comparator that my...