Any real benefit to VLD reamer?

[Jayhawkhuntclub]

My old school reamer seems to work just fine with my ELD/VLD bullets. Never had any shaving occur that I've noticed.
Seems like more of a marketing thing than a real world need.
Opinions?

 

[Supersubes]

Can you be more specific? Are you reamer shopping, or going off a gunmaker’s site info? Shaving...shaving what?

Edit: lol, he’s asking about deburring the inside of necks, not at all what I thought he was asking.

 

[AIAW]

I use just the standard 45 degree chamfer reamer and it seems to work just fine. I think in this business you've got to innovate something or die a slow, stagnant bankruptcy sometimes.

 

[Jayhawkhuntclub]

Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Yes, just talking about reaming the inside of the case mouth.

 

[Supersubes]

Have you actually pulled a bullet to see if you have any scoring on the bearing surface? It’s a minor detail, but controlling neck tension is perhaps one of the most important elements of good handloads. A sharp tool with a steep angle is a step in the right direction to prevent that. I’ve been using a holland tool for years. I mostly prefers it’s nice handle over standard tools with no handle.

 

[spife7980]

I like a vld style chamfer myself. With long boattails it’s not so bad with the steep old 45° but seat a flat base bullet. The vld chamfer makes it easier, the boattails just helps in the same manner which mitigates the effect, a gentle transition.

Some would probably say I chamfer too much off but I like how nice and easily the bullets glide in when seating. Generous long chamfers are the way to go imo.

 

[Steel head]

I use the Vld chamfer for every rifle cartridge I load.
bullets just seat nicer.

 

[918v]

Yes they do. Not all bullets have a nice radius at the boat tail.

 

[Milo 2.5]

It's half the work on the vld style. I bought a rcbs carbide old style to try, big mistake.

 

[Anderson_A]

I just got the trim it 2 and that’s my only complaint it cuts much less of a chamfer than I do by hand and at a sharper angle great tool but it’s one of those things that’s going to be in the back of my head it’s proabaly not an issue at all as someone pointed out I will only be seating boatails which makes it smooth transition anyway right