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Neck size clarification

Hi

Fairly new to reloading, so assume I know nothing lol.

Reloading for a 6mm Dasher, and the dies I have other than the seating die are:
  • Forster FL die (with expander ball)
  • Redding neck size die with bushing
I have been told that the Forster FL die is over working the brass because it first contracts the neck and then expands it using the expander ball. It does have the removable expander ball. Is there a point in me getting a Redding FL sizing die with bushing? The idea is that I can remove the bushing and just do the shoulder with nothing to the neck, or if I need to size the neck, I can pop the bushing back in. OR, can I just remove the expander ball from the FL die and just do the shoulder + neck contract?

I do have a few questions regarding if and when I should be sizing the neck.
1. If my twice fired brass chambers without an issue, I am guessing that I don't need to bump the shoulders for any reason. Does this mean that I can just use my redding to size the neck and then seat the projectile? If I am not bumping the shoulder, do I even need to size the neck or can I just go straight to seating? (I am thinking not, as the neck might not adequately hold the projectile).
2. Is it recommended to get the mandrel die to expand the neck? If so, what would the steps look like? Will I be sizing the neck with the redding die (assuming I don't need to bump the shoulder), and then use the mandrel to expand? If I do need the bump the shoulder, my current Forster die also sizes the neck. Will the mandrel die be useful in this scenario?

Basically it comes down to if I should be getting the Redding FL die with bushing and/or mandrel die for neck expansion?

Thank you

SOLD Glock 17/34 Longslide Custom IPSC 3 Gun Pistol TTI, ZA, Timney

sold

This is a custom Glock 17/34 Long slide 9mm pistol. Gen 3. The lower receiver is a Glock 34l. It has had the finger grooves removed and a TTI type stippling applied. There is a TTI competition mag well and a Timney Gold Alpha trigger set at 3 lbs. The slide is a Zaffiri Precision ZPS.3 for Glock 17l to take advantage of the longer barrel than the 34L. The barrel is a Zaffiri Precision Gold TiN ported:

Zaffiri Barrel Specifications
Compatible for Glock® 17L (LONG) Gen 1-4 ($180)
  • Length: Flush and Crown – flush with end of slide / inward “crown” shape
  • Twist: 1/10
  • Quality: 416R Stainless Steel
  • Polished feed ramp for easy feeding
  • Target crown and oversized lock up area
  • Stress relieved and heat treated to RC 40-42
  • Made to work with Lead, plated or jacketed ammunition
  • Large “ZP” Logo machined on the Port Side of the lockup.
  • Made in the USA
The slide is a Zaffiri Precision ZPS.3 slide ($370)
Our single billet 17-4 stainless steel slides are made with tight tolerances that allow an increase in accuracy and performance. 100% American made and manufactured at our facility in Largo, FL. These are among the best aftermarket slides available for Glock. This slide is pre-cut and pre-coated and no changes can be made. Please see our Custom Line if you’re looking for different optic cuts or color options.

Compatible with and designed to fit Glock 17 – Gen 3 and other 17 / 17L / 34 frames Gen 1-3.​

Features:

  • 100% made in the USA
  • Machined from billet 17-4 Stainless Steel
  • Slide Model: ZPS.3 (Long)
  • Optic Cut – Trijicon RMR / SRO and Holosun 407c / 507c
  • This Slide is pre-cut and pre-coated
    – Armor Black,
    Cerakote® Certified Coating Facility –
  • Black anodized optics cover plate and screws
  • Length: 8.75 inch
  • Width: 1 inch
  • Height: .855 inch
  • Weight: 11.2 oz
Optics Cut (Red Dot Footprint):
Trijicon RMR / SRO, Holosun 407c / 507c, and other popular “RMR footprint” optics – mounting position is in front of the factory location of the rear sight (dovetail remains behind the optic cut).

Timney 3lb Alpha Gold trigger ($170)
Sure, there are plenty of aftermarket Glock®triggers out there, but how many of them are built to maintain the legendary reliability that your Glock®handguns are known to provide? This Timney Alpha Trigger has been purpose-built to give you an enhanced trigger without sacrificing any of the reliability, safety or durability built into your gun. Each Timney Alpha Trigger is purposely designed to maintain the legendary reliability and safety of the Glock®operating system, all while enhancing the trigger pull for greater performance. This trigger includes a Teflon-nickel-treated trigger bar and sear, along with an anodized-aluminum straight trigger blade. The factory-tuned components are built to give you a crisp, clean trigger pull that measures in at three pounds. Other than these components, the Timney Alpha Glock®trigger uses all of Glock's OEM components and springs. The trigger parts are easy to install, so you'll need no gunsmith to enhance your go-to Glock®. You'll be making precision shots in no time. The trigger is designed to fit Gen 3-4 models of the G17, G19, G22, G23 and G34.


The gun comes with a CT RAD red dot sight ($240) The CT RAD™ (Rapid Aiming Dot) Electronic Sight is a full-size Open Reflex Sight for full frame pistols. Featuring a red 3 MOA aiming dot, the CT RAD™ has a recessed and fully multi-coated lens with a large quick acquisition window. The CT RAD™ comes with an AUTO Shutoff Function that automatically shuts off after 8 consecutive hours of operation to conserve battery life and a manual ON/OFF Function that allows you to turn on or off the sight by using the side brightness buttons. The CT RAD™ is easily installed on an optics cut slide using the CT RAD™ footprint that is also compatible with the Docter® footprint. Textured sides allow for a secure grip when racking the slide.

The CT RAD™ has large brightness setting buttons for easy use even with gloves on. Made of 7075 Series Aerospace Aluminum, it is 30% stronger than most industry standard sights made with 6061 Series Aluminum. The entire CT RAD™ family has an Innovative top strap design that deflects force if the sight is dropped. Our engineers developed a better way to reduce stress on the lens of reflex sights. By combining out-of-the-box thinking with next-level physics, we designed a system that both re-enforces your optic and reduces stress if it happens to get dropped. All this comes with our CRIMSON Protect Lifetime Warranty.
Comes with one 16 +2 magazine. Gun is brand new and test fired only. 100% reliable. 100% guaranteed...return for any reason within 5 days for full refund less shipping. Ships FREE PRIORITY mail to your FFL. No sales where prohibited, know your state and local laws.

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Accessories Mounts & Barrels

OEM Rem 700 LTR 20" 308 barrel, ODG cerakote, 5/8-24 thread, ~600rd count, with factory lug - $150 shipped.

Unfired Remage McGowen .308 - $old.

Larue 34mm lt845 QD mount - $old.

EraTac 34mm 20moa 1.44" mount - $old.

EraTac 34mm 20moa 1.46" cantilever mount - $old
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NEAR 34mm long action 1" height mount - $old.

PPFFnc or Zelle preferred.

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Definitely not the latest & greatest, but I like 'em... Weaver K4

Sent it off about a month ago and already got it back...Not sure how it got expedited by Ironsight, but I am not complaining

-Cleaned/resealed/No2 purged
-Crosshair reticle installed
-Target turrets installed
-Parallax set for 50 yards

Still wondering what the 'M' in K4M means...I haven't found a single reference or mention..same thing with the 'tracker finish'. If anyone has any insight on either of those, I'd appreciate it.

This is a purpose 25/50 yard scope for CMP rimfire games.

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Reloading Equipment Redding dies…. 6.5cm, 380auto, 38spec/357 mag, among others

PRICES ARE OBO…. These need to move

Here are a few of what I have to move. There are others and multiple other calibers…. Let me know if some other calibers is of interest other than what you see.

380 auto titanium carbide set …. 75$ shipped

38spec/357mag comp pro series set. SOLD

45 acp & ar. Titanium carbide complete set 70$

45 acp comp pro series titanium carbide set. 80$

6.5 comp seating die SOLD

6.5 neck sizing Bushing style die 58$

Let me know if you’re interested in anything or if prices are unreasonable

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December weather advisory for the Southeast/Midsouth. Elevated risk for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Parts of Virginia and North Carolina are currently under a severe thunderstorm watch as a major multi-part winter storm system formed as a result of a receeding early season polar front from earlier this month colliding with still warm and wet airmasses coming up from the Gulf is bringing snow to the northeast and bands of severe thunderstorms in the Midsouth, with elevated risk for supercells maturing after dark.

Historically, December has seen a major elevated risk for 'maxed out conditions' occurring on the southeastern dry line between polar air masses from the north and warm Gulf tropical inflow along with high altitude shear that continue to feed supercell systems into maturity well after daylight hours. Two of the most costliest and longest track tornadoes in US history, the Mayfield and Rolling Fork F4/F5s, occurred in December. Residents of the Southeast and Midsouth are advised during this time of year to keep track of weather updates and livestreams of storm chasers in the region who operate mobile Dopplar radars.

Hey guys! Well I guess my account is still consider new, but I been lurking and need some help!

Not sure what's going on, but I get been getting the "This message is awaiting moderator approval, and is invisible to normal visitors." Any reason why I am getting this?

Hi to everyone though, I guess I didn't leave a introduce when I made this account last year. Wishing grateful things to now being on the hide to have some interesting chats!
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SOLD Leupold mk6 1-6 TMR-D

1400$ shipped for the optic, add $150 for the mount. Optic box included obviously.

Trades: red dot, spotter w/reticle, Crye g3 34x, mk5 3.6-18 T3

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Taylor Sheridan - an education in a 1-minute read....

This guy is right now one of (if not) the best writer/producer of TV shows, probably in history. He owns the 6666 ranch in Texas- 260,000 acres - And he has a message - to wit - a monologue in his latest series called "Landman". The series is about currently getting oil out of the ground in Texas and here's the quote:

"It's from Sheridans's Landman, a soapy-actiony drama that premiered in November 2024 and that’s set against the fracking-fueled West Texas oil boom. Billy Bob Thornton plays Tommy Norris, a roughneck fixer “Landman” for a fictional wildcatting outfit called M-Tex. The company’s snarky young lawyer is surprised when Tommy tells her they use wind farms—what she calls “clean energy”—to power pumps so remote that they’re off the grid. He claps back, “They use alternative energy. There’s nothing clean about this.” She throws him a Zillennial eye roll: “Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how wind is bad for the environment.” So he does—with impassioned, profane eloquence—as they stand under a towering 400-foot wind turbine that stands on a concrete pad that covers a third of an acre and sits 12 feet deep."

“Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?” Tommy schools her. “Or make that steel? And haul this s—t out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You wanna take a guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f—n’ thing? Or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of makin’ it. And don’t get me started on solar panels or the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It’d take 30 years if we started tomorrow.”

He isn’t done: “And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year-old petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it’s in everything. That road we came in on. The wheels (tires) on every car ever made, including yours. It’s in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and antihistamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cellphone case, artificial heart valves, any kinda clothin’ that’s not made of animal or plant fibers. Soap, f—n’ hand lotion, garbage bags, fishin’ boats—you name it. Every f—n’ thang. And you know what the kicker is? We’re gonna run out of it before we find its replacement…. Getting oil outta the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don’t do it because we like it. We do it ’cuz we run outta options…. There ain’t nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin’ it.”

Gotta love a Texan character!

SOLD SPUHR SP-4602C

SPUHR SP-4602C
Picatinny Scope Mount
Ring size 34mm
6mil/20.6moa
Hight 38mm/1.5"
I had this on my PRS 22LR for a few shoots. Now I am moving to 6.5 Creedmoor and need 0 MOA for my Zeiss S3 to work.
Comes with leveling wedge.
All screws were properly torqued with Fat wrench!
$375
FREE Shipping!📫

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SOLD WTS: Leupold MK 4 2.5-8x36 MR/T Illum. Scope for MK 12

Looking to sell a lightly used Leupold MK 4 2.5-8x36 MR/T Illum. Scope for MK 12 in LNIB condition. Only seen 40rds under it!

This scope does have the MK 12 turrets and is illuminated. It is mounted in a pair of ARMS Inc throw lever rings.

Comes in original box w/ all the accessories!

Asking $1695 shipped! NO trades! Thx

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Falkor Defense Actions

I haven't seen much on here about the Falkor actions. We personally love the actions, and use them constantly on builds. The LW7 has become a staple in our ultralight line and have had 0 issues with them. The Seven is a contender with a ton of the older actions and in some cases has some better features. Something to look at if you are looking for something cool, and we know where you can find them if you need one! Hit us up!

Accessories Defiance 6.5x47 Lapua barrel spun by Beanland

6.5 x47 Mueller heavy Palma barrel spun up by Jon Beanland for Defiance Deviant. Muzzle is threaded 5/8x24 and finished at 25”. Only 1400~ rounds down this awesome tube. Sold the action it was on, so it needs a new home.

Asking $250 shipped conus.
Cross posted so I’ll go by timestamp.

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