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Here is an originally boxed Ideal #6 tool in 45-85. The box includes a brass Marlin/Ballard type powder dipper and decapping pin. The outside of the box notes the tool is for "Colt's Lightning, Winchester, Marlin and Other Magazine Rifles". The seating chamber is non-abjustable for length and the bullet profile is flat-pointed.

Ideal #6 boxed tool in 45-85





Here is the bullet profile and caliber marking from a non-adjustable Ideal #6 large frame tool in 45-75 Winchester.

Ideal #6 large frame tool in 45-75