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Micrometer adjustment seating die. Cheap. I may get one just because. Cartridge specific, unlike Hornady which is caliber specific.
It’s honestly NOT much more expensive to make a die micrometer adjust. It’s just a matter of making the seating adjuster 40 threads per inch rather than some more common thread. One full rotation would equal .100, so that the .001 marks coincide.
Might be handy for my .300 blackout. I’ll save the Hornady die set up for my Barnes loads, and have the Lee for farting around loads.
Cool. I just enabled myself.
Justsomedude wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:05 pm
If I was more serious about reloading than just dìckin around, I'd modify my existing dies. What a missed opportunity
You’re waaaaaaayyyy late to that game if you wanted to profit. They’ve been around a long time.
I actually hacked up an import micrometer and put it on a regular seating die. Works perfect.
“The shepherd slaughters more of the flock than the wolf ever will.”
CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:14 am
There’s my home built version.
Excellent. Some people might find it to be a waste but it's a pain in the àss when you're OCD, want to get to a specific OAL and have to keep seating, removing, measure... until you finally get it. And it would work great in keeping recorded specs for different loads, bullets, etc...
I’m thinking a few of those might come in handy for running on my Dillon 550 press. Much easier and more repeatable than standard seating die’s. The price seems right.
I don’t use my 550 very often. So I transfer my dies to it, adjust everything, then run a couple thousand rounds of general purpose ammo. Then take my dies back out and use them for small batches of more specialized ammo on my other presses until I want to use the 550 again. Having seating measurements on the die could be helpful.
I’ve grown kinda fond of the RCBS Matchmaster seating dies. But cost of those has limited me to only having two of them. 6ARC and 6.5 PRC. For everything else I load, I can’t justify the extra cost.
If lee would come up with a micrometer adjustable copy of the Hornady seating die, they would have something good happening….
Jay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:50 am
I’ve grown kinda fond of the RCBS Matchmaster seating dies. But cost of those has limited me to only having two of them. 6ARC and 6.5 PRC. For everything else I load, I can’t justify the extra cost.
If lee would come up with a micrometer adjustable copy of the Hornady seating die, they would have something good happening….
Ummmmmmmmmm…..that’s what this is.
Has the same floating seater arrangement as the Hday.
“The shepherd slaughters more of the flock than the wolf ever will.”
Jay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:50 am
I’ve grown kinda fond of the RCBS Matchmaster seating dies. But cost of those has limited me to only having two of them. 6ARC and 6.5 PRC. For everything else I load, I can’t justify the extra cost.
If lee would come up with a micrometer adjustable copy of the Hornady seating die, they would have something good happening….
Ummmmmmmmmm…..that’s what this is.
Has the same floating seater arrangement as the Hday.
Oh crap! I didn’t see it had the floating seater thing… The Hornady one hangs down below the base of the die, so I ASSumed the Lee was a regular seating die with a micrometer adjustment.
Well then… I will probably be ordering a few of these..
AND, you can use it as a "dead length" seater without crimping, or turn the guide over (it screws out the bottom) and then have a crimp capable seater
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