Originally Posted by mathman
Originally Posted by beretzs
It does make me laugh when folks piss and moan about a belt. It’s really nonexistent to me.

My bitch with belted cartridges isn't the belt per se, but the amount of slop that is often present in the fit of new brass to chamber even when both chamber and brass are within specification.

I agree, it is all over the map at times. My issue pretty much went away when I got the expander mandrel set from 22/416 caliber. Now it’s so easy just to neck up one caliber and size if to fit from the get go. I pretty much do it with everything larger than 223 nowadays. I feel like it saves me money since Brass with somewhat decent annealing seems to last forever.


Semper Fi