bobke
12-07-2009, 02:32 PM
have set upon accumulating the necessary components and so forth to start a 475linebaugh project and need some of the sage and wisdom of the crew here to get me started on the right foot, at the get go, not down the road somewhere.
picked up 200 hornady 475 cases at bass pro in san antone, cheaper than anywhere i've seen and since they'd been sitting there for so long, figured i'd give them a proper home. choice now is die set. prefer carbide for the simple ease of use and am considering rcbs three die set or hornady 4 die titanium nitride set. excuse my ignorance(and i did check the hornady site), and do know ti/nitride adds surface hardness to anything it's applied to, but does this satisfy the same sizing/lubrication requirement that carbide does, or is this just to add longevity to the die set? always prefer separate seating and crimping stations, so hornady seems a likely choice, but don't know have an answer on the ti/nitride question. so...to lube or not to lube cases? what's everyone else using for dies and have you found any issues with same?
need to get something, probably a lee manual trim pilot and case holder, to get case length correct, a shell holder for lee hand primer(pretty decent feel for bottom of pocket), and maybe some fresh chamfering tools and should be good to go. will the 475 case fit either a forster or rcbs lathe type trimmer shell holdeer or something special req'd here?
am watching for a proper bullet mold in the 400gr range, and both 44man's and BaBore's 400gr flatpoint look pretty good. anything else i'm missing here? gun-likely a bfr-will never see jacketed bullets, so that' out at the get go. any other suggestions?
as always, appreciate the accumulated wisdom and feedback here. thx.
picked up 200 hornady 475 cases at bass pro in san antone, cheaper than anywhere i've seen and since they'd been sitting there for so long, figured i'd give them a proper home. choice now is die set. prefer carbide for the simple ease of use and am considering rcbs three die set or hornady 4 die titanium nitride set. excuse my ignorance(and i did check the hornady site), and do know ti/nitride adds surface hardness to anything it's applied to, but does this satisfy the same sizing/lubrication requirement that carbide does, or is this just to add longevity to the die set? always prefer separate seating and crimping stations, so hornady seems a likely choice, but don't know have an answer on the ti/nitride question. so...to lube or not to lube cases? what's everyone else using for dies and have you found any issues with same?
need to get something, probably a lee manual trim pilot and case holder, to get case length correct, a shell holder for lee hand primer(pretty decent feel for bottom of pocket), and maybe some fresh chamfering tools and should be good to go. will the 475 case fit either a forster or rcbs lathe type trimmer shell holdeer or something special req'd here?
am watching for a proper bullet mold in the 400gr range, and both 44man's and BaBore's 400gr flatpoint look pretty good. anything else i'm missing here? gun-likely a bfr-will never see jacketed bullets, so that' out at the get go. any other suggestions?
as always, appreciate the accumulated wisdom and feedback here. thx.