Re: Neck size a 6.5 Swede in a 6.5 Creedmoor Redding
Tonytx,
Have you ever checked your reloads for bullet concentricity after reloading with the Hornady dies?
I ask as once I checked my Swede loads for concentricity, I was getting 50% with at least a 5-thousands run out. (Which is not acceptable at all).
So, I changed my reloading procedure....especially the neck sizing stage, and even the most important (which I had not been doing) was "squaring up) every time, the brass with my Forester brass trimmer, then cutting a good chamfer. This improved my concentricity (down to 2-thou or less) to 85% at a minimum for every "batch" that I loaded.
The reason for my long B-S on the concentricity is that my groups shrink up and hold very consistently with the bullets "batched" under a 2-thou conc. that those with the 5-thou concentricity. So...that's why I ask if you have done this with your Hornady die.
Ok, I need a nap now!!!
Thanks.
Dave
BTW....my shootin buddy called me last nite and said the Swede brass would not neck size in his RCBS competition neck sizer. Even tho the Swede brass is smaller in diameter, and the shoulder is not as sharp, he stated it would not work.
I don't know how the RCBS is set up (his is a bushing die) but there must be some catch-ball release for the brass, as if the brass could simply slide in there, it seems to me it would work. But again, I haven't actually seen it.
