Who reloads 25-20?

[Kelsey Cooter]

So I've just bought a lee pacesetter die set for 25-20 and last night realised they don't use a separate expander die, so I looked on the net and I see pretty much all the die makers don't.

I'd like to flare the cases for cast projectiles, so I'm wondering, do you blokes use a universal flaring die or should I buy a specific expander/flaring die for the 25-20?

[boingk]

They don't have a powder-through-expanding die? My 32-20 does.

[Kelsey Cooter]

They don't have a powder-through-expanding die? My 32-20 does.

No, I was really surprised that they don't.
I also reload 32-20, 38-40 and 44-40. They all use a powder through exapanding die, for the 25 the lee pacesetter set comes with the factory crimp die instead

[boingk]

Weird. Any chance the 32-20 will work on the 25-20 case? Give it a test.

- boingk

[Kelsey Cooter]

Nah the 32 expander would be too big, cheers though

[Kelsey Cooter]

So this might be a bit of a farmers solution haha, but I was able to expand them by taking the guts out of the seating die, and used a .308 168gr boat tail hollow point to flare the mouth.

The boat tail bottomed out on the narrow part inside the die and centered itself so left a perfect flare. Doe the job until I get a universal flaring die anyway

[boingk]

Nice one mate!