sizing problem
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Pretty much anything factory chambered in a Weatherby caliber will be freebored. Otherwise you could run into pressure problems with factory ammo. I know gents who have built custom rifles in Wby calibers that they have eliminated the freebore on in a quest for more accuracy, but then you need to handload appropriately for that particular combination, and the next owner may not know that, so another issue arises. Alway a good idea to measure your throat and freebore, to get an accurate max col brfore preparing your rounds. - dan
I'm was looking at my .300 Win Mag small base die and couldn't see any reason why it couldn't be used as a small base body die for the .257 Weatherby if the decapper rod was removed. Being naturally courious I took a fired case from my kids .257 and ran it through. It works, really puts the squeeze on 'er. Should work for the 7 Rem mag and .264 as well.
I got another set of dies, i ran a couple of brass through it. They fit the gun!! I compared the brass and the new die brass is noticably shorter in the body. So i decided to play with the old dies, I took the dies to work where we have a lathe, I took .005" of the bottom, Still no go in the gun. I took another .002" off still a little tight so finnaly took another .002" off. After a couple of trips to town, the brass now fits fine. Seems to me the old dies are .009" too long in the body. Any body else ran into this?
I have some custom dies now.
I have some custom dies now.
That's the way it goes. In a perfect world every chamber of every gun is supposed to chamber every cartridge loaded on every die. If all the tolerances stack the wrong way it doesn't work. Kind of like rings, bases, scopes and actions. Glad you got it sorted out.
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In 2001, I develpoed the Belted Magnum Collet Resizing Die. It's designed to solve the exact problem you described. (Measure the diameter of your cases, and remember . . . . they start out at .507"). Our collet die looks like this:
Visit my website at WWW.LARRYWILLIS.COM and you'll see how this die works. I also designed the Digital Headspace Gauge (below).
The gauge measures the clearance (at the shoulder) that YOUR handloads will have in YOUR particular chamber. It looks like several shooters here could use this one. It works on all rifle calibers.
- Innovative
In 2001, I develpoed the Belted Magnum Collet Resizing Die. It's designed to solve the exact problem you described. (Measure the diameter of your cases, and remember . . . . they start out at .507"). Our collet die looks like this:
Visit my website at WWW.LARRYWILLIS.COM and you'll see how this die works. I also designed the Digital Headspace Gauge (below).
The gauge measures the clearance (at the shoulder) that YOUR handloads will have in YOUR particular chamber. It looks like several shooters here could use this one. It works on all rifle calibers.
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