shooters as evidenced by advertisements for Redding and Forster. Wilson makes ‘hand dies’ of course for the cartridge for use in arbour presses and these will give very concentric results on brass fired in a well chambered rifle, the sizer being a bushing neck-only type that takes either Wilson’s own bushings or the externally identical Redding examples.
Harrell’s Precision makes a custom full-length bushing sizer die based on your fired cases – seen here in the same company’s dandy little, but powerful, portable press
Custom Dies With the BR’s accuracy potential, some users have custom dies made with the gunsmith who chambers the barrel doing this job with a matching sizer-die reamer. This is an expensive exercise and the best of the factory dies seem to work well enough even for most top long-range
Then there are semi-custom dies where you send a couple of fired, un-sized cases to the die-maker who chooses one of several sets of dimensions closest to matching your chamber. Harrell’s Precision does this for a very nicely made full-length bushing sizer for both PPC and BR cases, letting you choose the ideal bushing size to get neck tension just right. It accepts Wilson/Redding dimensioned bushings. It’s not a cheap tool, especially for us in the UK with carriage, 20% VAT and import costs, getting on for £90 (sans bushings of course) once it’s in your hands. (
www.harrellsprec.com/fl_die. html ) Harrell also makes a family of lovely portable presses in various sizes, the PPC/BR model widely used for on-range loading in bench rest matches. The UK importer and retailer is Fox Firearms UK and Brian Fox says he’ll get the Harrell’s sizer-die too if asked. Forster will try to
Hornady L-N-L comparator body plus headspace gauge for the 6BR are used to measure fired cases’ headspace dimensions, then to set the sizer die up in the press
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