Lee reloading die question

[BenKeith]

I found an old Lee die stamped 6mm-85 while rounding up and going through all my reloading stuff and not sure why I have it, or what is since the dies I use for my 6mm are RCBS. It has the primer punch so I'm thinking maybe it must be a neck sizing die but can't remember ever buying a Lee die for anything.

So far I've managed to find everything but a turrent press, one rock chucker, my case trimmer and few thousand rounds of all different size brass. I'm affraid the brass might have gone by mistake. A few years back while doing one of our clean outs, I threw away a couple of drums and very large boxes with several thousand 12ga and 20ga shell hulls. After digging out a smaller box I've been thinking was my brass, it was full of 12ga shell hulls also and I think my brass went the other shell hulls.

 

[kujones]

Ben;

I can't help you with the die or your missing brass but no one had responded to your thread so I thought that I would at least do that. No one has responded to my thread about the .270 WSM and it's getting kind of lonely...

 

[Larry Elliott]

That's one reason why I keep my brass in MTM boxes, they must love me, or large plastic bags so that I can see what I've got because I sure can't remember. Sorry.

The Lee die might be a 6 mm Remington die, or just a universal 6 mm decapping die. I'd guess that the "85" on the die might indicate the year it was made. RCBS used to stamp a year of manufacture date on their dies, but I can't remember if anyone else ever did or if they still do.

 

[BenKeith]

Yea, I guess when I finally get everything setup, I'll run and spent casing through it and see what it does. I would think it either has to be a Lee 6mm full length resizer or neck resizer. I can only figure it's a die someone gave me or got missed up with my stuff years back when I was shooting. I know I've never bought any Lee dies. However, they seem to have improved a lot today from what they made 30 years ago. It surpised me reading how many competition shooters are actually using some Lee Products today.

It sure did hurt having to order $300 worth of brass just to get started back to shooting. Well, $150 of that was 260 brass that I never had anyway. The thing that hurts most about loosing the brass was my 222 1/2 target rifle brass. I had about 500 rounds of good, perfectly matched and fully preped target brass and a couple of thousand 222 Mag and general purpose reformed brass that didn't make the grade for match rounds.