I use it because I deprime on a separate, single stage press and then use a Lee hand primer for priming. When I get to loading on a 4-station turret press, the decapping pin is removed from the sizing die and that step only performs resizing.alanwk said:Why would you use the universal depriming die and not the one that comes with die set? Thanks.
For all my rifle hand loading, I use a single stage press and I clean the primer pockets before I re-prime.Why would you use the universal depriming die and not the one that comes with die set? Thanks.
Alan
Jims correct and that is how i load, finger seating the 530 grain postells after a light compression.Black powder burns best in a compressed load, sometimes compressed a LOT.
Compressing the load by hard seating the bullet will distort a soft cast bullet and accuracy suffers, so we use a separate compression die.
Bill is of the no resizing - finger seat school of thought. You can do that with a single shot rifle at the relatively low pressures of black powder.
I saw one guy bring out his charged cases with nothing but an overpowder wad, gently finger seating bullets as he set out his ammo for the next string of fire.