Is a full sizing die needed for a pump action 30-06

When I weight the benefits against the risks, it makes no sense to me to do anything less than FL resizing on any rifle cartridge I do with rare exception -6.5 Jap, and only because brass is very expensive, hard to come by, and the gun has an oversize chamber. Everything else I FL size.

I am not a match shooter or an 800 yard bell ringer either. I load for hunting, plinking, and informal target shooting.
 
Unclenick, I have been arguing the "Orient the headstamp" thing with people for years. I totally agree. If everything is not perfectly aligned, the case will actually be bent in the chamber the next time around. It is pretty much a waste of time with an off the rack rifle, except as TimSR mentioned, you can extend brass life.
 
40+ years ago an article was written by a bench type shooter/reloader. In the article he claimed he purchased 500 rounds from one batch of cases manufactured by one company. He claimed he sorted and culled cases for ever reason possible. After sorting he started test firing, Out of the 500 cases he settled on 47 cases that produced outstanding accuracy.

When finished he started over on the culls. he found he could fire and index the case then load and index the case when he chambered and get outstanding accuracy.

F. Guffey
 
I always promote the using of a Small Base Sizing die for pumps & semi-auto actions. And the purchasing of this tools.(link) i.e. used to set exact shoulder set back on your Sizing Dies set-up procedure prior to its use.
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A bullet comparator setting back the neck?! Did you mean that it is used to measure seating depth of the bullets?
 
purchasing of this tools
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I am thinking the link covered all of the tools, that leaves the difference between this and these. And then; as most know I have trouble bumping, moving and setting the shoulder back because my shoulders do not move. And I am the fan of all the bullet hold I can get; I am the fan of transfers and standards.

And then there is the 'by now'; by now it should be understood my cases do not have head space, my cases have a length. With the length I off set the length of the chamber with the length of the case.

To promote thinking; how does a reloader set up/adjust the seating die with the tools posted on the Hornady link?

F. Guffey
 
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And then we have to back again; the M1 Garand used the same ammo that was used by the 03 Springfield and the M1917. Meaning the auto feeder did not use small base ammo.

If a reloader is reloading ammo for an auto feed rifle I suggest they make/purchase a chamber gage. I have chamber gages, none of them are store bought/purchased. I am not too proud to use a barrel that is a take off or new. I know, that makes for a very long gage. Before turning a barrel into a tomato stake I cut shorten it with a band saw and then use the short end as a chamber gage.

F. Guffey
 
Dahermit,

I suspect he meant the case comparator inserts instead. The same adapter works with both, and you can get just the inserts.

You can also do it yourself, though the comparator insert does make it a little less wobbly to handle:

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And then it has to be said it is not easy to transfer the measurements because of the nature of something that is case friendly. If the tool is case friendly use the tool as a comparator.

Again, I am the fan of transfers and standards. It is not easy to get an accurate reading from a tool with a radius; the L.E. Wilson case gage had a datum with a radius for the sake of being case friendly. They use a standard when grinding the length of the gage from the datum with a radius to the top of the case gage and bottom of the case gage.

F. Guffey
 
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