I'm just starting reloading, and have picked up some redding type s dies. I will be using .308 175smk with Winchester and lapua brass. What size bushing do you guys use?
Thanks
Thanks
Neck sizing bushing
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It depends on your brass and if you neck turn it. All you do is take the neck thickness and multiply it by 2 then add the bullet diameter then subtract say .002(depending on how much tension you want. Since you're shooting 2 different kinds of brass you may need to turn your necks.
I use .334 for Lapua, .331 for Win, .336 will not size the neck enough to hold the bullet in Lapua brass.
You'll end up at some point wanting bushings larger and smaller than the nominal. As the cycle count increases, so will the neck thickness. If you turn necks someday, you may overshoot and go a tic too thin. I'd also buy bushings one size up and down fom what you think you need. The day you do need them, you'll need them right then, not the five days later it will take to get them shipped in.
Hurry up, would you? PDs in Pueblo this Saturday!
Hurry up, would you? PDs in Pueblo this Saturday!
Sure am! and Im also looking to become a member out there, Im brand new to precision shooting and am going to do some load development in the next few days.
