genebofunk
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Hello all,
I'm throwing this out there to see if anyone else is having or has had this problem. I have a set of RCBS Competition dies for 308 that I have been using on my Lee single stage press with great success. Earlier this year I bought a hornady lock and load progressive. The problem I am having is with the FL sizing die. When I set up the die in the hornady press I raise the ram full stroke then screw down the FL die until it touches then give it an 8th of a turn or so. When I size the brass I run the ram up until it stops. Then when I check the brass in the case gauge it doesn't fit because the shoulder is not being set back enough. I tried adding another 8th and even another quarter but the die seems to be hitting the shell plate and now lowering enough of the brass. I swapped up the RCBS die for a Lee 308 FL die. I set it up the same way raise the ram, touch the shell holder and give it an 8th of a turn and it works fine. The lee die is setting back the shoulder by .004 or so. Anyone else have this problem or something similar. I'm thinking I need to send the die back to rcbs and have them ground a few hundredths off the die so it will lower completely over the brass.
-- Gene
I'm throwing this out there to see if anyone else is having or has had this problem. I have a set of RCBS Competition dies for 308 that I have been using on my Lee single stage press with great success. Earlier this year I bought a hornady lock and load progressive. The problem I am having is with the FL sizing die. When I set up the die in the hornady press I raise the ram full stroke then screw down the FL die until it touches then give it an 8th of a turn or so. When I size the brass I run the ram up until it stops. Then when I check the brass in the case gauge it doesn't fit because the shoulder is not being set back enough. I tried adding another 8th and even another quarter but the die seems to be hitting the shell plate and now lowering enough of the brass. I swapped up the RCBS die for a Lee 308 FL die. I set it up the same way raise the ram, touch the shell holder and give it an 8th of a turn and it works fine. The lee die is setting back the shoulder by .004 or so. Anyone else have this problem or something similar. I'm thinking I need to send the die back to rcbs and have them ground a few hundredths off the die so it will lower completely over the brass.
-- Gene