Bushing suggestion for .300WSM please...

Do you have any dies to load with now? Best way to get proper bushing size is to load a few rounds, measure outside diameter of neck on loaded round and minus 1 to 3 thou, there you have it.
 
back40sniper said:
Do you have any dies to load with now? Best way to get proper bushing size is to load a few rounds, measure outside diameter of neck on loaded round and minus 1 to 3 thou, there you have it.
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I don't, but I'll be getting some.

My buddy has some RCBS dies, I'll have him take the calipers to his loaded rounds.

Thanks for the advice.

-J.
 
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anywhere from 310 up to 337, it is going to depend on what your using for brass, winchester has thinner necks then the others. Measure a few loaded rounds and subtract 1-3 thou as suggested above. there is no cut and dried answer for bushings as neck wall thickness also varies with lot to lot measurements, you may have to skim turn your necks to get a uniform size and neck tension
 
So, i was just measuring some loads for my 6.5 creedmoor and measured an outside diameter of .291". I would order a .289" bushing? Is the the type s redding bushing the one i'm looking for? Their website is hard to navigate and I'm having some problems finding what I need. I haven't neck turned yet either, I'm assuming i'll need another bushing after that?
 
Any of the redding's that say type S are a bushing style die. I can't remember right now what the comp/match/etc differences are - I think they may mean no micrometer, micrometer seating, micrometer both....

The FL vs neck debate rages on. I've chose to do FL, and I got a 100$ headspace comparator to bump my shoulders back.

To expand my necks I'm going to use something like this:

https://www.kmshooting.com/catalog/case-neck-expanding-tools/expand-iron_complete.html

I think there's a hornady decapping die you can use too, but I couldn't find it.

-J.
 
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