358 win small base dies?
Ranger338V, I will never catch up with you, he said he had a rifle chambered, he said factory ammo worked without a problem. but was having a problem with sized cases chambering, some not all.
"I had a 760 pump rechambered to 358 winchester. It feeds and fires factory stuff without a problem. However, reloads are finicky. Some feed fine, others are hard to chamber or won't chamber"
"a LOT of people adjust the die with no case in the die so they have no idea how far the die may be off the shell holder under compression"
In a trade the 1/4 to 1/2 additional turn would be called a pre-load.
If they have no ideal how far the die is off the shell holder under a load they need to purchase a feeler gage, with the ram up and adjusted there should not be space between the shell holder and die when the case is sized and the press under a load with the ram up, if a feeler gage will not fit between the shell holder and bottom of the die (ram up and under a load), the press won, if a feeler gage can be inserted in the gap between the shell holder and die (under a load with the ram up), the case whiped the press, the gap can be measured in thousands, a remedy could be an additional 1/4 turn. I do not know what press he is using
I spend a small amount of time determing the length of the chamber from the face of the bolt to the shoulder of the chamber, I also spend time making cases for short chambers, back to maximum amount a case can be sized, there is a limit, I do not use cases with excessive resistance to sizing and there is no way to reduce the length of a case without grinding the top of the shell holder and or bottom of the die or purchase the shell holder from Redding, make sure the shell holder is a negitive shell holder and not a plus. If one grinds the shell holder and or die then determines neither was the problem, now what? If the feeler gage eliminates the guessing, he is ahead and the intergity of his equipment has not been compromised
He said the shell holder was solid against the shell holder. I believe him and I accept the ideal the maximum amount of sizing as in reducing the length of the case from the head of the case to it's shoulder can not be done by crushing the die.
F. Guffey