I recently bought a rifle chambered in 230 Ackley. The rifle came with brass, loaded ammo, size and seat die, about a 1000 .227-.228 bullets and.... the mystery dies.
The two dies are extremely similar to the RCBS Primer pocket swaging dies with a die body and a punch that extends almost to the end of the die in the center. Both punch tips are flat. But there are also two sleeves that have a sliding fit, each into one of the dies. The OD of the sleeve matches the ID of the die and the ID of the sleeve matches the OD of the internal punch. One of the sleeves has an ogive on the inside and the other seems to be a flat bottom. Both ID's on the sleeves are .228 diameter. Each sleeve has a hole in the bottom (for ejection?) and they fit into a standard shell holder slot in the ram. There is another piece that is a small homemade arm with a pin that appears to fit into the primer seating arm position on a rockchucker. I think this is the ejection pin for the sleeves but the pin will not fit into the holes in the sleeves. (might not have been fitted yet)
I think that the die with the ogive is a bump die to bring .224 bullets up to .228 and that the other might be a core seat die.
The whole package was purchased in Roseburg Oregon. Any information about these dies would be appreciated. I'll be watching this post closely for answers or suggestions.
Thank you.
Joe
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