Hate to bother with such an inane matter but I had heard that the seating die Hornady includes with the 6.5 Grendel die set can also be used to seat 6.5 Creedmoor. I have the microjust seating stem installed in it and I have been really pleased with performance in the Grendel. Can I do this? My plan in the interest of minimizing expenditures is to buy a 6.5 Creed Redding type S for the resizing duties and share the seater between the two rounds. If this is a stupid plan (it may well be but I'm learning) please let me know. Thanks!
Question re: Hornady 6.5 seating die
- Thread starter Cerwinski
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Never tried its You should give it a try. Test it on 5-10 empty cases. If it seats, accurately, then you got your answer.
I'd love to do just that but I need to get a resizing die first lol. Just want to know if I should buy a set or just the resizer...
I, personally, would buy a set but that’s just because I don’t like the hornady universal seaters. They include the 30 cal with the 300 blackout and I can only make it work in a coax by having the lock ring not even all the way on the die a thread short and stopping my press stroke halfway down. Any further and it will try to crimp and collapse the shoulder. Total pain in the ass and the primary reason for my hornady die disdain.
Might be just fine in a traditional press but if you’re in a coax then the grendel isn’t that much longer than a blackout and you may be similarly screwed over.
Might be just fine in a traditional press but if you’re in a coax then the grendel isn’t that much longer than a blackout and you may be similarly screwed over.
Yes, you can use them for both cartridges. Like spife said, just make sure the die body is up high enough in the press so that you don’t run out of travel on the sliding sleeve.
Yeah, Hornady dies tend to ride pretty high in a COAX press. Hence why you (and others like me) tend to shy away from them. Well, that and that shitty "zip spindle" design in their standard designs (what POS). My 6.5CM seating die with micrometer stem BARELY lets the yoke pass over the top of the die (and the sleeve occasionally pops out, requiring me to pull the die, and shake it until the sleeve falls back down into the slot).
Nowadays I just seat while dropping charges (Wilson seating dies), so it's kind of a moot point I suppose (but still annoying as hell).
