Anyone using the Redding die

I though that brass 'with the bulge' showed it had been fired in a gun without good support for the brass around the feed ramp. I wouldn't want to shoot that brass again, but that's just me.

The Redding die looks like the 'straight through' kinda dies that commercial places use for re-manufactured ammo. Anything that I have owned from Redding has been top notch.

Proper resizing of the brass will also remove the bulge. I reload a hell of a lot of .40 S&W for law enforcement using their brass. Like 10,000 rounds a week.

That's a nice quick solution if you find the problem. Definitely get the bottle with.

I've never known Redding to produce a product just for fun and profit. They do respond to problems with solutions that work, and nothing from them that I've ever tried has been anything but topnotch in quality and strength.

I'd rather buy a Redding die product than an RCBS product and I like RCBS products a LOT.

I load a lot of 40S&W on a Dillon 650. I have a Lee Factory Crimp die in the last position. The FCD will tend to remove most of the bulge and size the case a little further down than a Dillon sizing die. I case gage my finished ammo and get maybe 5 rounds of 100 that fail the case gage using range brass. I put the failures aside and will eventually pull the bullets.

The other common solution is to size with a EGW "U" die. This is a Lee carbide sizing die that is 0.001" smaller than standard.

Unfortunately at present Lee dies are in short supply.

Magma Engineering makes an arbor press with a push through die that does the same thing as the Redding die for more $.

Lots of solutions depending on what you want to spend to recover a few cases.

The die is tapered starting larger on the underside and ending smaller at the top. It will squeeze the outside dimension down to remove the bulge. Basically it does the same things as a sizing die does when used properly but they will sell thousands of these dies and make money off people that think this will bring world peace. Good for Redding.

ar10, its a push thru die, used to take out the bulge that normal dies miss. It fully resizes the body of 40 s&w, 10mm auto, and 357 sig. After the G-Rx Die you use your normal die to size. There are a few thread on it, can't find them.

Saw it advertised...

It's apparently made to manage Glock bulge.

Scott

Sizing

They use to make a machine called a roll sizer that rolled sized your brass back to specs. I don't know if they are still made or not. Lots of them were sold to IPSC shooters. Also some of the ranges that sell brass will have a roll sizer to resize the glock brass.
Larry Burchfield
SEABEES/RVN/67/68/69
DAV

I assume we're talking about that excessive "bulge" alleged to happen in certain barrels?
Nice tool for a nag of a problem(if ya get a lot of brass like that).

BTW does all or most of said brass have a squareish mark on the fired primer where it's struck?

Josh

I have one of these on order. I use a Hornady Lock and Load for my main press, but just aquired a Lee Classic Cast single stage just for this Redding Die. I have a lot of problems with the bulge including it sticking badly in some guns' chambers.

My question to you is this: Would you run a live round through this die? I would say that only 3% of my finished ammo exhibits the bulge and it's much more apparent after the round has been through my Lyman sizing die. I load like crazy, and dump into a cardboard box. When I'm done, I load the ammo into the plastic ammo boxes. It's at that point that I visually inspect the ammo and see the bulge. I would like to be able to cram a handful of finished rounds through the redding die to flatten them out.

Opinions?

There are cheaper alternatives for removing the bulge.
I use a gutted-out Lee factory crimp carbide die and a push rod to pass the case completely through the die. Works like a charm.
I use the LFCD for nothing else.

Just a quick note to those who are subscribed. My GRX .40 die came today and it is very cool. I tried it out on *gulp* live ammo as I mentioned a few posts up and it worked great!!! (do so at your own disgression)

Awesome product!