Originally Posted by 300_savage
I use the Redding shellholder kits that allow the die to touch the shellholder while still allowing control of the shoulder bump, or lack of it if that is what you want. As the one poster noted, a neck sized case will be hard to chamber after a few firings, then start with the 0.010 thicker shellholder. If that doesn't allow easy chambering, use the 0.008, and so forth till the crush fit almost, or completely disappears. Write in your die box which shellholder to use so you don't forget.
You are then bumping the shoulder a maximum of 0.002" which I can live with for hunting ammo.


This is what I do, and love those Redding competition shell holders.

Once you find out which shell holder to use for your load, which only bumps the shoulder between 1 and 2 thousands, you just set up the press normally then on all future loads for that set of dies and that caliber... you are always "bang-on", and don't have to fiddle with resetting the die and testing/measuring incrementally as you lower it more and more.

Saves beaucoup time and is repeatable.


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