Re: Which 308 Dies to get
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JGorski</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mioduz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've been reloading for years, but very little rifle and even less "high accuracy" rounds. My rifle shoots Federal GMM 168gr like a dream so I looking to clone that round and then try to improve upon that later. I had some 308 LEE dies laying around. It seams as though they are not sizing the brass enough/correctly. I dont have a lot of experience with the high end (bushing) reloading dies.
Is it worth paying the big bucks for the bushing dies? How do you know what size bushing to get? </div></div>
The reason your Lee dies arent resizing enough is the fact Lee makes their die for minimum headspace, had to send my Lee 06 dies back to them so they could take a little off the bottom, after that they were fine. To get the correct neck tension I bought the Hornady neck size bushing dies, actually have the Full length bushing dies too from Hornady which I may or may not need since the neck sizing dies do bump the shoulder back, we'll see if I need to FL resize the brass after a few shootings. That being said I found I needed .331" bushing for Win brass, and .334 for Lapua & Rem brass to get about .003 neck tension. I initially bought a .336" bushing and it didnt hold the bullet at all, except that bushing does size the neck enough so I can use it for finding the lands in which I seat the bullet by hand, chamber the dummy round and have the lands push the bullet in, carefully eject the round and measure it to see where to start my load development. </div></div>
so if it take a little meat off the bottom of the die, it will go lower down and push the shoulder back even furthor. I dont know why i didnt think about that. I think i may try that tonight