Title says it all. gun show prices are understandable over priced and its hard to find a patron walking around with merchandise other than grandpa's old korean war bolt action. ive found craigslist sketchy at best since i now own 2 30.06 die sets. I know i can "get them to work"
but Im a bit of a perfectionist with my reloading since i use a single stage press. i like to get loads as "perfect" as I can till i can find a bullet spinner rig to really home in on a real sniper round and I have trouble short seating 270 rounds with the robust crimp of larger load crimps.

I'm willing to trade and if youve got a 9x19 lee set (im partial to lee) i am also interested.

Price is negotioable but dont rip me off or ill have to just risk my luck on craigslist again.
ill give you a square deal

And a tare capable digital scale if you have one. something that can display accurately to 3 decimal places (for unfamiliar power batches



[Edited on July 22, 2012 at 9:50 AM. Reason : here's hoping]

7/22/2012 9:44:53 AM

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"I have trouble short seating 270 rounds with the robust crimp of larger load crimps."

wat

[Edited on July 22, 2012 at 10:32 AM. Reason : what is a press seat?]

7/22/2012 10:31:24 AM

I think he means press seat = shell holder.

7/22/2012 3:00:42 PM

http://www.midwayusa.com/find?sortby=1&itemsperpage=20&newcategorydimensionid=11948&

7/22/2012 6:02:32 PM

sorry if i use unofficial lingo. when i speak of "short seating" i mean to "short necking into a crimp" long necking with a crimp significantly increases bullet pull and when combined with plus/minus Xlbs of pull to dislodge, the shorter neck and crimp, the smaller the variance in force is required to free the bullet from the casing, theoretically resulting in more consistent velocities at the breach and hopefully carrying down range.

press seat/brass holder whatever. i take your feigned ignorance as light mockery but thats what i call them and will always call them because the old dudes who cast custom bullets call them the exact same thing.

so, anyone got any of this junk im asking for?

7/22/2012 7:54:33 PM

i've never heard of a press seat and google didn't produce anything either, so i asked. no mockery intended.

and i still don't understand your crimp thing, but whatever. i don't crimp for my bolt guns.

anyway, i wish i had an extra set of .270 dies to sell you, but i need mine. i've had decent luck with saving a few bucks on die sets on ebay. you could also try http://www.carolinashootersclub.com where they have a feedback system that seems to prevent folks from screwing you over.

[Edited on July 22, 2012 at 8:40 PM. Reason : and i wouldn't pass up non-Lee dies if the price is right. plenty of other fine dies out there.]

7/22/2012 8:39:05 PM

ok this is bugging the shit out of me so i broke out my old lyman reloading handbook and in the portion on accuracy and load evaluation it seems to swap the terms "seat depth" and "crimp" when referring to necked down rounds like the .270 25.06 ect and I guess its my fault for not differentiating between a tightly necked round and a round with a "loose" neck seating with a crimp.
I crimp all my handgrun rounds because all my brass is top of the line and has break lbs variances that are almost negligible and things like dust and brass glossing can really ruin a tight necking on a die meant to be used with no lube. but im not dealing with handgun rounds here. SO i apologize for speaking out of my ass.


since it looks like im done with craigslist for this kind of stuff, can anyone give me some pointers on how to properly seat a .270 round with 30.06 dies? I keep hearing about it being done (word of mouth) but im starting to have my doubts. I mean, with used brass how am i going to flare the mouth correctly without cracking and stressing? Can i neck it with one die and then swap it with a deep throat 38 seater?

Im asking these things here because that cunt cassthesass deletes all my posts in the lounge so i cant really posit them there

7/23/2012 11:22:10 AM