Gonna try to copy a 175 fed gm first.I'm still debating with neck or full size.I was about to pull the trigger on dillon 3 set die set for 65.00.Now I'm reading you dont have to crimp at all?What would I do with the crimp die?The guy at the dillon dealer said if I get a case stuck its alot easier to remove on the dillon dies.Do they get get stuck often?Can you use a comp die on a 550?Should I just buy a sizing/deprime and seating die separate and not bother with a crimp die?It's for my bolt gun only.
crimping a 308 175smk fed brass 210m
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Re: crimping a 308 175smk fed brass 210m
No crimp. Determine the outside neck diameter of a loaded round that you desire, using your brass and bullets...then order a Forster FL sizing die and have it honed out by them about 2 or 3 thousandths tighter than that diameter. (Costs $16 including shipping!) The Forster BR seating die is top notch also. JMHO
No crimp. Determine the outside neck diameter of a loaded round that you desire, using your brass and bullets...then order a Forster FL sizing die and have it honed out by them about 2 or 3 thousandths tighter than that diameter. (Costs $16 including shipping!) The Forster BR seating die is top notch also. JMHO
Re: crimping a 308 175smk fed brass 210m
Dillon dies come with a crimper because lots of people use progressives to make massive amounts of cheap 55 or 62 grain 223 ammo and those bullets are generally cannelured for crimping. If the bullet isn't cannelured (ala a match bullet) crimping isn't going to do much.
FWIW I use a small base FL RCBS sizer and Forster benchrest seater die and they work great but I'm not familiar with the dillon so I don't know if those would work on it or not. For a bolt gun you might want to think about a neck sizer die and not a FL for instance and I have no idea how a neck sizer would work on a progressive, sorry.
Dillon dies come with a crimper because lots of people use progressives to make massive amounts of cheap 55 or 62 grain 223 ammo and those bullets are generally cannelured for crimping. If the bullet isn't cannelured (ala a match bullet) crimping isn't going to do much.
FWIW I use a small base FL RCBS sizer and Forster benchrest seater die and they work great but I'm not familiar with the dillon so I don't know if those would work on it or not. For a bolt gun you might want to think about a neck sizer die and not a FL for instance and I have no idea how a neck sizer would work on a progressive, sorry.
