Anyone getting away with just neck sizing with loads in the 30K or less pressure range?-----or is it just a sometimes thing?
My first month with the K31 has been a bit of an edjumakation sizing-wise. First there was the reforming of the .284 Win brass, a real breeze. Then the resizing of the fired cases, a task more formidable by far than reforming the brass initially. Now, that's a first! Well, presumably that's because most 7.5 Swiss dies are dimensioned to size for the tighter Swiss 1911 chamber, overworking the K31 brass. Add the heavier reformed .284 brass, and you've got a gargantuan task made for a Rock Chucker, all the while having nightmares about triming and short case-life. So, I just got a neck-sizing die.
Lee Collet Die probably would have been the way to go---working the brass less than a traditional neck-sizer. I've got several of them already, and they all work ok after some finessing. But, at the moment it's hot as blazes, and I don't feel like finessing anything. So the fifteen-dollar Hornady that does any 30 cal cartridge was it. Just did up a bunch of twice-fired brass, sizing just 80% of the neck. They work great, but for how long??????? I don't EVER want to go back to fully resizing(let alone buy a special Redding sizing die). Ah, la vida dura, con los suizos!-----jethrow