7.5x55 reloading die ???

[aufevermike]

I am going to have to go the reform the .284 route in order to shoot my K31. My question is what type of Lee dies do I need in order to do this? The collet die the just sizes the neck of the full length sizer dies? Common sense tells me the full length but then again I could be wrong.

Thanx,
Mike

 

[Oldnamvet]

Why not just get the brass from Grafs? Seems it would be easier.

Now I see. They don't have any at present and it costs about double what 284 brass goes for.

 

[kid_couteau]

What Oldnamvet said

Or you could get the Wolf ammo in 7.5x55.

I havent reloaded it yet but it shoots nice and is reloadable brass.

Kid

 

[ocabj]

Get the Hornady 2-Die set. The expander ball is tapered to make necking up a lot easier (still use lots of lube though). I have the Hornady dies for 7.5x55 and use it to resize .284 to 7.5 and to resize native 7.5 brass.

 

[aufevermike]

Well, I'm up in Alaska and having live ammo shipped is a big expense so you can see that I need to take the route of resizing until one of 2 major gun shows and hopefully someone will have some available.

 

[donkee]

I use the LEE 2 die set. I did order an FCD for it, but haven't tried it out yet. The LEE dies are just fine for the resizing operation.......

 

[Matt Dillon]

The folks on the Swiss Rifle forum recommend the RCBS set of dies

 

[Firehand]

You will need the full-length sizing die to form the brass, whatever company you get it from.

I know people who use the collet-sizing die to only resize the neck after the brass has been used the first time since it's now fire-formed to the chamber, but for the initial forming you're not only expanding the neck but setting the shoulder back a touch. So the full-length size die is required.

I just finished taking my first set of reformed and loaded ammo to the range, worked quite well.

 

[Dave R]

The only brass my K-31 has known is reformed .284Win brass. I resized all of it (200+-) with the Lee full-length resizing die from the Lee 2-die set.

I split necks on 5-6% of them. The first hundred I just ran through with LOTS of lube. After I split a few necks, I annealed the 2nd hundred, and still split 2 of those, IIRC. So annealing didnt seem to make a big difference.