Gee, I hate to reply to my own thread, but I must be the only one out here that has one of these tools.
I ordered mine from Brownell's and it arrived very quickly. Reading the instructions, it is a very easy tool to use. You will need to supply your own digital caliper. I have a very nice, older caliper and when 'zeroing' the tool, it was dead perfect every time. There is absolutely ZERO slop, play or anything in this tool. Crisp, positive detents, waaaay better than anything I could cobble together and I thought I was pretty good with my milling machine and lathe. ha ha
Not having any fired, empty cases around, I remembered I had shot my buddy's new M12 rifle to zero a scope I lent him. It's a 22-250.
Using the tool on the fired cases shows a tiny ring made by the tool at the Datum, in this case, .350".
Then, I took some new, unfired cartridges and put them in the tool. The 'ring' was easily seen on the virgin brass, but in most cases, it didn't make contact all the way around. Cool. Nothing like fireforming the brass.
I contacted Forester concerning purchasing some spare parts and they don't have pricing yet for the individual small parts, tool is too new.
BTW, I looked at Brownell's and the tool is already sold out. This is an excellent, easy to use device for the precision reloader. As I said, I made my own Datum tools, which now are in the spare part bin... ha ha
be safe
ron
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