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Bump, still, after all these years, bump sounds like an accident. I have presses that bump, all my presses that that bump, bump twice, and I have 3 Rockchuckers, not one of the three is a bump press, jam, cram, lock over or lock up but they do not bump.
I believe Nosler and I could carry on a civil conversation, most of my dies are ‘Versatile dies’ I form/size cases from short chamber length from .012 thousands shorter than a minimum length/full length sized in thousands to .016 thousands longer than a a minimum length case. That covers full length sizing to minimum length to go-gage length to no go-gage length to field reject length and every length beyond and before, that includes 28 different length. For the same money I get neck sizing, partial case body sizing neck sizing with case body support.
I did not say I did not have other dies, as to other dies, my favorite dies are case forming/trim dies, if I had one form/trim die it would be a 308 W.
I guess bump and accident go together when making a wild guestimate of an adjustment, I eliminate accidents, I use the companion tool to the press, the feeler gage when adjusting the die to the shell holder, with all of the different methods and techniques available, to me it makes no sense to use ‘a method’ without verifying, and if the reloader is going to verify why go to the effort with other methods and techniques and then use the feeler gage to verify, why not go straight to the feeler gage (standard) to verify and skip the wild guestimate.
Verifying, transfers, standards and feeler gages do not lock me up.
F. Guffey