Lee Bulge Buster or Redding GRX to eliminate bulge

I had my .45 acp Hornady sizing die wear out in my LNL AP around 25,000 rounds, it started to fail to properly size Remington brass (thinner than other brands) first and the sized brass would not hold plated bullets with proper neck tension to prevent set backs. It took me a while to figure it out but a new sizing die fixed the issue.
 
I automated a casepro for the job. It will roll size 1800 cases an hour and also irons out the extractor groove, something a push through sizer cannot do. Works on tapered cases as well.

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Grx Bulgebuster

Realgun, I may have not explained my process properly. I do use this die in my
AP, But all other functions are suspended during the process. only use the 5th
station, one at a time. It involves removing the crimp die since it is easiest to
reach. not a speedy process but, like I said, works for me!!!!!
 
Realgun, I may have not explained my process properly. I do use this die in my
AP, But all other functions are suspended during the process. only use the 5th
station, one at a time. It involves removing the crimp die since it is easiest to
reach. not a speedy process but, like I said, works for me!!!!!
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Can't picture that, if the press is indexing every time you pull the handle. It would eject the G-Rx ram every time, no?.

A little $25 Lee single stage does the job better, I suspect.
 
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Love my Redding G-RX Carbide Base Sizing Die Kit 40 S&W, 357 Sig, 10mm Auto. I never tried the Lee, but the Redding works great. Easy simple to use and it gives me a chance to look at each case and evaluate since I am doing it on and old RCBS single stage press. I mainly load the 10mm, so i haven't used on any 40 S&W's yet.
 
I got in the Lee "el cheapo $30" single stage, Lee crimp die, and bulge buster kit with the plastic tub. All in for $70ish. I set it up next to the progressive last night. I debulged 200 complete rounds and 300 additional cases. Even though it is a carbide sizer I went ahead and used lube on every 10th case or so. The single stage is all aluminum and with the force I had to put on it I'm afraid it would break. It was a breeze with them lubed. This is a great solution. I will upgrade the single stage at some point.

I see now how it could work in the progressive. You'd just have to pull the stem out of the shellplate and reinsert every time it indexes. It would work but would double the time so $30 well spent on the single stager.
 
You'd just have to pull the stem out of the shellplate and reinsert every time it indexes.
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That sounds like kind of a pain in the keister. I have no experience with a progressive. Isn't there an easy way to disable the indexing? Or maybe buy 4 or 5 stems - to put in all the shellplate slots?
 
There is no way to disable it that I'm aware of. It would kick each stem out on station 5. Although you COULD do it, I spent the $30 and bought the cheap single stager.
 
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