Quote Originally Posted by jakester View Post
Yeah, now that I think of it, not the best advice to have given a new handloader. I can get away with that procedure because my sizing die is a bit on the small side. The O.P.'s die may not be.
With your dies, is the benefit of your "procedure" that, as long as the cases are all from the same lot and fired from the same chamber, the rest of the cases won't need checked for length after sizing? I can see where that might work. I just went out to the shop and checked a bunch of "emptys" of various headstamps and fired from two different carbines. I found case lengths to be anywhere from 1.273" to 1.296" - a lot of variation, but when I picked out a few that I know were from the same lot and fired from my own carbine, they were fairly uniform in length. I can see where you might save a lot of effort on the resizing with that method too; those tapered cases can take a lot of force to FL resize. - Bob