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Unread 12-03-2013, 09:06 AM   #22
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Very very cool!! But I missed one step -- how did you create that bottleneck on the case? On picture #6, it's straight case, and it's bottlenecked case on picture #7. Was that done by the RCBS resizing die?
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Full length sizing in an RCBS resizing die to form. Lube case well.
So, yes.

I've read references here to 'having' to buy 'forming dies' to make wildcat cases (or in this case a pistol case from a rifle case). I have done and still do form my cases in the reloading/sizing die. I have never seen the need for a 'forming' die. The hardest wildcat I've had to make, the 38-45 Clerke, still forms quite easily if you use virgin brass and lube it liberally.

(As far as I can tell by looking, 'forming dies' are simply reloading dies with the interior machine operations left out.)
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