M14 Forum

Latigo

Hello, all. One of your members directed me here and after reading a bit I joined. Very knowledgeable website.

I'm now working with a Don McCoy M1 Garand, single shot rifle. Obviously it will take a full 8 round charge, but it was designed and built as a single shot rifle. For most everything I use Redding Competition dies, but I do have a Forster press and have been reading about their proprietary Bench Rest Dies.
The week before he passed away I spoke with him for the last time, and Mr McCoy had mentioned that neck sizing was an intended part of the reloading process for this rifle.
Can anyone with practical experience with both please explain why I might want one over the other of these two neck sizing dies?
This rifle is intended to be fired by handfeeding one cartridge at a time into the chamber and manualy closing the bolt.

Thanks for any advice.

Latigo

82nd ABN

Welcome to the forum latigo!
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I am new to reloading but let me tell you, you came to the right place! I am new to reloading, I'm so new I'm at the stage of buying equipment. I recently posed a question to the forum members requesting info on dies. From what I understand it's not nesasary to neck size for a gas gun but seeing how you are using it as a single shot rifle I may be wrong. Like I said I am in kindergarten when it comes to reloading. Anyway here is a link to the thread I started a couple of weeks ago and aside from the answers you will receive, you may want to look it over. There is some good info in that thread. Here is the link.
Die confusion please set me straight.

Latigo

Thank you sir! I';m an experienced reloader but this particular rifle build is a new one for me. I use Redding Comp on everything, but I've been reading about the Forster dies and their Benchrest Dies do interest me.
Thanks for the link.