Mule Deer- Suggested Hornady Dies successful - 09/03/20
Hello Mule Deer and all members
John you were right about the Hornany full resizing dies(9.3 x 62) being able to easily expand 30-06 up to 9.3 caliber. I followed your advice and purchased a set of the 9.3 x 62 dies and they worked very well AND easily. I've reloaded for 45 years and never owned Hornady dies, always RCBS. I am pleased with Hornady Co.
Also, I purchased a used, old Bonanza press(before Hornady purchased Bonanza Reloading Co.) three years ago off of ebay. It needed the missing set of primer feeder tubes, and a spring for the primer feeder tubes to properly feed primers to seat them. They were sent to me for FREE! For FREE! Postage paid. The die set was ordered from Midway USA. The new parts for my new/old press worked perfectly and I can still purchase the same press from Hornady that was made by Bonanza over fifty years ago. I've never experienced any difference in accuracy by not hand seating the primers. Maybe you guys have. Also, I stopped standardizing primer pocket holes, and just now clean out the primer flash hole after Mule Deer wrote a article about not standardizing the dept of the holes. I tried it and there was NO difference except not having the aggravation of doing the primer pockets. My rifles are not competition rifles and it just doesn't matter.
I am impressed with Hornady. I'm impressed! I've used Hornady bullets most of my life as they expanded well,were accurate, and performed very well on North East Tennessee's mid size whitetail deer.
Thanks for the advice.
roanmtn(Roan Mountain)
John you were right about the Hornany full resizing dies(9.3 x 62) being able to easily expand 30-06 up to 9.3 caliber. I followed your advice and purchased a set of the 9.3 x 62 dies and they worked very well AND easily. I've reloaded for 45 years and never owned Hornady dies, always RCBS. I am pleased with Hornady Co.
Also, I purchased a used, old Bonanza press(before Hornady purchased Bonanza Reloading Co.) three years ago off of ebay. It needed the missing set of primer feeder tubes, and a spring for the primer feeder tubes to properly feed primers to seat them. They were sent to me for FREE! For FREE! Postage paid. The die set was ordered from Midway USA. The new parts for my new/old press worked perfectly and I can still purchase the same press from Hornady that was made by Bonanza over fifty years ago. I've never experienced any difference in accuracy by not hand seating the primers. Maybe you guys have. Also, I stopped standardizing primer pocket holes, and just now clean out the primer flash hole after Mule Deer wrote a article about not standardizing the dept of the holes. I tried it and there was NO difference except not having the aggravation of doing the primer pockets. My rifles are not competition rifles and it just doesn't matter.
I am impressed with Hornady. I'm impressed! I've used Hornady bullets most of my life as they expanded well,were accurate, and performed very well on North East Tennessee's mid size whitetail deer.
Thanks for the advice.
roanmtn(Roan Mountain)