BrokenWheel
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I have been resizing my 223 brass with a Hornady custom grade die for about 2 years. Recently, I acquired a redding resizing die and I bought the carbide neck button for it.
I noticed that the brass resized with the redding had, what seemed to me to be tighter necks - because when I tried to use my Lyman hand trimmer, the neck pilot really had a tough time getting pushed into the neck for trimming, not to mention turning the trimmer. On some brass I really had to pull hard to get the bushing out. OTOH, brass resized with the Hornady set, the cartridge neck seemed big enough to easily accommodate the Lyman trimmer.
Which one of those dies would you continue to use?
I noticed that the brass resized with the redding had, what seemed to me to be tighter necks - because when I tried to use my Lyman hand trimmer, the neck pilot really had a tough time getting pushed into the neck for trimming, not to mention turning the trimmer. On some brass I really had to pull hard to get the bushing out. OTOH, brass resized with the Hornady set, the cartridge neck seemed big enough to easily accommodate the Lyman trimmer.
Which one of those dies would you continue to use?
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