Thread: Honing a full length sizing die

Have been looking at different sizing dies lately and have seen the likes of forster offering dies with custom neck honing, this got me wondering if it is possible to have someone hone out the full length sizing die I already have. Is this something a smith can do easy enough?

Is it over sizing your brass ?

die takes down to .305 expander bring back up to .314 would be nice to not work the brass as much

There are a few companies that can do the job but it is not sure that they would be able to hone the neck concentricaly with the rest of the internal die body.

You might be better off getting an outside neck turner and turn the brass a little? Remove a bit of the thickness? Seems like the expander ball is doing a bit of work on getting it back out

Or replace with bushing dies might be the simplest solution if I’m reading this correctly

Originally Posted by Kelton

Or replace with bushing dies might be the simplest solution if I’m reading this correctly

Thats what I have been looking at doing but don’t really like that they don’t size the whole neck