Howdy guys. For the past few months I've been working on a project that holds a special place in my heart, as I am a big bore lover. I am building a super rifle chambered in the obscure wildcat dubbed "12 gauge from hell". Essentially you convert a 12 guage slug gun into a rifle by using bore diameter projectiles and slow rifle powder. The brass I am using is lathe turned 3.5" shells made by RMC. Lehigh defense is going to make me a 1085gr extreme defender in .729" which oughta be wicked out of this pea shooter.
Anyways, one of the guys that helped develop this cartridge has informed me that when he loaded his, he annealed the case mouth and just "neck" sized to 2 thousandths neck tension. He said he made his die by cutting up a 50 bmg die and hand lapped it to size.
That's a serious amount of work on a very expensive die as is. I really don't want to mess with all that and would much rather opt for a custom die to be made.
My question is, who out there is is able to do custom dies at reasonable rates with decent turn around times? Any info would be much appreciated. The sizing die is the only thing preventing me from loading a round and touching one off.
Here is the 3.5" brass with a 600 grain fury slug inserted (dummy round) as you can see, this is gonna be a bit of a handful
And here is the "rifle". It's an h&r ultra slug. I've installed a limbsaver magnum pad as well as added weight to try tame it somewhat. I've also removed the top rail for a peep sight and will have my Smith install a front blade when he lengthens the chamber.