Hello I just buy RCBS dies for the caliber 458 Lott, but I have little notion of how to place the dies in the press, so I'd like to know how the dies are placed in the press:

1 - Die recalibration.

2 - Die expander.

3 - Die to place the projectile.

My press is a Lee Challenger (Tigertatte gift) and if you could explain to you as the parent marcáis I'm going to thank you in the soul.

Adjust the sizing stem to where the pin is about 10mm or so.

With the shellholder on run the press up to the top and screw the sizing die until it touches the shellholder.

Size a LUBED case and make sure that the decapping pin was low enough to knock out the primer.

With the 2nd die turn it in until it touches the shellholder and back off a 1/2 turn or so. Run your sized case into the die and slowly adjust the expander in until you can feel it just starting to expand the case mouth. Keep lowering the expander until it opens the mouth of the case enough for you bullet to fit into the mouth of the case.

With the 3rd die, run your sized case to the top and screw the die in until you feel the crimp touching the case, then back it off 1/2 turn - you don't want to crimp the bullet yet.

With a primed case loaded with powder seat the bullet until the mouth of the case is in the middle of the cannelure (crimping groove). Do this for all of your bullets.

After your bullets are all seated screw the seater out and run a case with a seated bullet up into the die. Turn your die the 1/2 turn you backed it off plus another 1/2 turn to start the crimp. Slowly adjust the die downwards until you have the proper amount of crimp. With the 458 Lott you want a pretty firm one, when you start to see a sharp ring around the rim that's about all the crimp you can safely acheive.

You almost never want to seat and crimp the bullet in the same step, it can cause various problems when you do.
Don't overexpand the case mouths. You just want it open enough to allow the bullet to slide in without scraping.

I hope this helps........................DJ

Thank you very much for the explanation, there are points that I do not understand, but I think it is for the disastrous translation done by the google. If you could advise me a page where there is a video explaining I would be grateful. With explanations and some image would suffice. I'm pretty clumsy.

Mil gracias,

Oscar

Try here:

http://www.rcbs.com/downloads/...gDieInstructions.pdf

Maybe this will translate better:

http://www.chuckhawks.com/adjust_reloading_dies.htm

This video looks OK but I think is just for 2 die sets but still it might help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...3dL5Cv-Y&feature=fvw

You could probably find more by googling "reloading video's".

Good luck, let me know if there's anything else I can help with......................DJ

Thank you very much, no way I will annoy you more. You do not think the translation problem is your handwriting, no, the problem is the lousy translator who has google. I thank you in the soul the trouble you took for me.

Oscar.