Originally Posted By: FurhunterOriginally Posted By: fw707Originally Posted By: FurhunterSomehow I've made it 25 years hand loading my own ammo without a micrometer seating die..
All it does is offer you a small more precise adjustment when setting the seating depth. It does not seat bullets any straighter, nor does it solve varying OAL issues that arise from changing ogive dimensions. If one takes a bit of time with any good seater die you can hit any OAL you want. I think you would be much better served with a quality set of dies like these to start with. These Forster's are nice and the seaters are very good.
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/184923/...=ProductFinding
One other thing it does is allow you to return to a numbered setting if you are using the same seater for different bullets. If you aren't concerned with that, the plain old Forster bench rest dies that FH posted the link to are great.
I have both types on the shelf, and I never use the micrometer feature on the ones that have it.
A simpleton like myself has a dummy round made up with the bullet of choice. I just put it in the press and reset my seater die to that dummy round.
Or....
I load more ammo before I run out of the last batch and use one of those rounds to reset the seater... That is if I've monkeyed with the die, if not it stays set.
Its the K.I.S.S method.
Just threw it out there.
No more micrometer dies for me either.