Case forming 7.65 Argentine from 30-06. Which die works?

[vintage hunter]

Lee is cheap so thus the problem.

I have no qualms with Lee dies. About half of the 50 or so die sets I own are Lee. Besides the occasional broken de-capping pin that can happen with any brand they've all worked flawlessly for me and the ammo loaded with them is just as uniform and accurate as that loaded with RCBS, Redding or Lyman. I had an RCBS FL size die that split from stem to stern once. Never had that happen to any of the cheap Lee's.

The Lee FL sizer measures 1.838" using the same .375 gauge diameter on a FL sized case

Unless you gotten the same results from multiple sets checking just one example isn't enough to rule out the possibility of an out of spec die.

I tried taking out the expander-decapper from the die and then put a 0.014" feeler gauge into the bottom of the shell holder and ran the case up again in the die after annealing it and the empty case then chambered easily into the rifle.

Sounds to me like his problem was a sloppy shell holder rather than the die.

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[ireload2]

The original poster and at least a half dozen others on other forum over the last 15 years have complained about the Lee die for this caliber.
If you carefully read the original posters comments he stated that he had 2 sets of Lee dies with this problem. And then I checked mine and I find the same problem so it is not a single die. The problem is Lee does not always do his homework. Lee could at least buy a set of RCBS dies and a set of Reddings and a couple of 1891 Mausers before he determines his final die dimensions. Many or most Lee sizers are very close to the same dimensions as RCBS but the 7.65 Mauser made by Lee is wrong.
I have spent a good bit of time and money gathering all these dies and forming cases so I can measure the dies and my chambers. I am not willing to spend more money on another Lee die when I know that another brand is more dependable in this caliber.

Unless you gotten the same results from multiple sets checking just one example isn't enough to rule out the possibility of an out of spec die.

[browningautorifle]

I have no qualms with Lee dies.

You've been lucky then. I only have one if I can't get better. Then I replace it soonest. I have lots too. I've seen nothing but problems so I'd never use a Lee product as a regular item. None of it... One RCBS item failed? That's not bad.

[mrappe]

Good News:
I recieved the Lyman die set that I ordered in 7.65 Argentine and tried a case with it after using the RCBS case forming/trim die and trimming the case. I loaded the brass with a bullet using the Lyman seating die and it chambered and extracted easily. It looks like I will not need to turn or ream the case neck after all.