Hey flake
I have chased concentricity for quite a while and have just about beat it's ugly head back into it's hole. It started with me getting the RCBS Casemaster. Back in those days I had the usual equipment, an old single stage press someone had given me and the typical Full Length Dies. I tried the o-ring under the lock nut on the decapping stem, tuning the decapping stem, rotating the case while sizing, etc. etc. etc.
My advice would be to get the concentricity gauge and buy the following set of dies (I would post a link but this site does not let you reference a M-I-D-W-A-Y link):
1. Lee Collet Neck Sizer - On sale for $22.99 (for the 300 WSM you get the Lee Seater too, which you need to put in a drawer and forget about). The Lee Collet squeezes the case neck between the collets and a floating mandrel to size the neck. A fired case will expand the neck to the chamber walls and your chamber will be very concentric. Check one on the concentricity gauge and you will notice that there is very little runout, you introduce runout by the sizing operation. Since the mandrel is floating the Lee Collet does not push the neck one way or the other during the neck sizing operation. The normal dies have an expander ball which jerks the neck and introduces runout. There is the added benefit of not needing to lube the inside of the neck and then try to get all that lube out.
2. Redding Body Die - $21.79. You will need the Body Die to push the shoulder back when you develop a crush fit. You check for a crush fit by chambering the case in your rifle and seeing how hard it is to close the bolt on the unsized case as opposed to how hard it is to close the bolt without anything in the chamber. Depending upon your chamber, brass and load you may be able to neck size a couple of times before you have to push the shoulder back.
3. Redding Competition Seater Die - $79.99 . I know, expensive, but worth it. You could get the Forster Ultra Micrometer Seater for $59.99, but I don't have any experience with those so can't recommend them. I normally get the RCBS Competition Seater but they don't have one listed for the 300 WSM so may not make one, but if you can find one get the RCBS. It has a side window for loading the bullet and a floating collet to support the case so the bullet gets started straight to begin with and stays straight during the seating process.
I have not found a regular seater (Lee, Redding, RCBS or Forster) that does not introduce some runout so the Competition seaters are worth it if you want to minimize runout.
4. Lee Factory Crimp Die - $9.29. Not absolutely necessary for reducing runout but they will help to make bullet grip and bullet release consistant and reduce standard deviation of velocity. For $10.00, what's to lose.
After chasing runout for quite a while, this is the set of dies I came up with to resize and introduce the least amount of runout possible.
There is also another step which is neck turning which will make your neck thickness uniform. That is another whole thread and complicated by itself.
As a final touch I have a Bersin Tool which can be found on Kinneman's website with which you can gauge runout and actually reduce it by pushing on the bullet with a threaded bolt on the side
but they are expensive. There is another way to actually reduce runout by using the Casemaster, marking the case and gripping the neck with an RCBS bullet puller with a 338 collet (applicable in your case for a 30 caliber neck) or drilling an appropriately sized hole in a block of wood and bending the neck. Not as exact as the Bersin but a helluva lot cheaper.
The gist is that the more you do and the more you detailed you get the less runout you will have. Does it make a difference in a hunting rifle? Not really that much. If you just get the Lee Collet that will solve about 75% of your runout problems and reduce it to where it is less of an accuracy problem than other factors such as bullet, powder and seating depth issues.
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