Yes.!.
But, don't go blowing away the huge wads of cash that I have over the last 40 years ... trying to make ordinary ho-hum kit produce true match grade ammo. Then, repeatedly, tossing out those lo-crap tools and buying a little better mid-crap stuff ... toss 'em, ... half-ass-crap ... toss again ... now toss out the $1000's in components/testing/time totally wasted. Barrels burn't to crisp. Futility.
Garden variety tools, they will only produce garden variety ammo, no matter how hard you may try to tweak or cajole 'em into producing the kind of precise cart's. that you really want to be loading. It's all about low/no bullet runout and absolute consistency in all spec's.
Each handloader, he will eventually evolve his own methods to get to his personal nirvana.
This is what works for me ... a notoriously parsimonious 'ol <low budget> seeker of accuracy. Don't be having me any surplus money to burn. Nope.
After all this time at the game, it's gone full circle, and become so simple, of late.
Start out with good brass, Lapua if possible. A decent Single stage press. A good balance beam scale(10/10's, they rock). Lee trimmer with drill/driver spud shellholder. Common chamfer/deburr tool, with another shallow angle reamer to (gently)smooth up inside the necks. A good qual. priming tool with "feel". BR primers, they are worth the premium $'s. Anneal your brass every few firings for consistent neck tension.(I like 2 thou..)
A powder measure, set to 1/2 grain short. A powder trickler to run in that last little bit to charge weight.
Now, the important part ..... Dies.
A Redding body die. Bump the cases back a thou. or two whenever the bolt gets a wee bit too tight on closing. Or, if using brass not previously fireformed to your chamber.
Lee Collet neck die. Set up 'over center' on the ram handle. Center stem is turned/polished to 3 thou. under bullet dia.. Run it through a second time with a quarter turn between ram strokes.
"M" die. Sized to open the necks to 2 thou. under bullet dia..
Redding or Forster Comp. seating die. These dies work. Forget buying those runout testing dial guages with the above set up ... you won't need 'em ... Zero to max 2 thou.TIR runouts, every time, all the time.
A good barrel will let you know when it likes it's diet!.
Sorry Barney/Gents for the serious thread drift here ... I just
Love my handloading.
