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<blockquote data-quote="Tex_Hunter" data-source="post: 1535196" data-attributes="member: 31749"><p>I'll throw in my .02 here:</p><p></p><p>This is by no means all encompassing, but the tools I have had the best success with are:</p><p>- Chargemaster; this is non negotiable, by the time you buy a decent beam scale, trickler and powder measure you have spent as much or more as what one of these costs, they go on sale about once every 2-3 months, wait and buy one</p><p>- Forster dies; if you full length size this is another non-negotiable, the expander ball is floating and is up closer to the neck of the die so that it starts drawing the neck out while the case is still centered and supported in the die so less chance it will pull the neck off center vs dies that have the ball all the way down at the bottom of the decapping rod, also their micrometer seater dies are also strong enough to run compressed charges without splitting the seater stem</p><p>- Lee trimmer/ case length gauges (the little caliber specific rod/cutters, NOT the all in one trim/chamfer/debur multi tool) quickly and consistently trims brass back to a pre-set length, they are cheap and effective and you can chuck the cutter into a drill and speed things up considerably, cost about $15 all in so I just have one cutter for each caliber that I reload for, I mounted the lock stud/shell holder to a screw driver handle and welded on a little metal rod so that I can quickly insert/remove cases</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tex_Hunter, post: 1535196, member: 31749"] I'll throw in my .02 here: This is by no means all encompassing, but the tools I have had the best success with are: - Chargemaster; this is non negotiable, by the time you buy a decent beam scale, trickler and powder measure you have spent as much or more as what one of these costs, they go on sale about once every 2-3 months, wait and buy one - Forster dies; if you full length size this is another non-negotiable, the expander ball is floating and is up closer to the neck of the die so that it starts drawing the neck out while the case is still centered and supported in the die so less chance it will pull the neck off center vs dies that have the ball all the way down at the bottom of the decapping rod, also their micrometer seater dies are also strong enough to run compressed charges without splitting the seater stem - Lee trimmer/ case length gauges (the little caliber specific rod/cutters, NOT the all in one trim/chamfer/debur multi tool) quickly and consistently trims brass back to a pre-set length, they are cheap and effective and you can chuck the cutter into a drill and speed things up considerably, cost about $15 all in so I just have one cutter for each caliber that I reload for, I mounted the lock stud/shell holder to a screw driver handle and welded on a little metal rod so that I can quickly insert/remove cases [/QUOTE]
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