doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com Experiences with having custom sizing dies made?

True on the short reamer run. Should have said I am sizing the 25 Krag cases body with a 30/40 die that never touches the neck at all. It does clean the shoulder up nice after going through the 3 case forming dies, set to size the neck only. Thing about a .25 Krag is there is no standard anything.

Complicated but two main points,

If you can get a gunsmith to turn key the job Rifle and Dies it's the way to go, I just never had any luck with that path. If not let the rifle set what you are going to do to the cases. Long as they are smaller and chamber, blow out with a forming load, after work the case necks only with a neck sizer die.

On my .25 I thought about a ring base sizer die however down by the Web it's all but impossible to get any size out of sizers. Pretty quick and easy to turn them down just a bit.

Boats

Boats,
I understand very well what you are saying, I load for a couple rifles using a combination of different dies.I just have more experience sizing rather than turning the heads, although I usually turn a groove with a parting tool just ahead of the rim, to avoid closing the primer pocket.BTY, one of my "one of these days projects" is a 25 Krag inproved. I have a "takeoff" barrel and Siamese Mauser action set aside.
I usually have to do my own rifles, I can't afford to pay for a "turn key" job.
To size the heads, you have to force the cases all the way in, to the rim, then drive them out with a punch. Otherwise the shellholder gets in the way.
Mike