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Re: Which Dies?

Posted by John 23 Harris on Apr 13, 2020; 7:47pm
URL: http://oldforum.flyshooter.com.au/Which-Dies-tp5710760p5710761.html

My uno way to go when trying not to break the bank is a le Wilson full length bushing die matched with either a Le Wilson in-line die or a Forster ultramatch seating die .

I also own Redding comp with also the micrometer neck die .
Although these are a really nice set of dies that make some pretty straight ammo  I don’t believe they deserve the current price tag .

I also have a custom built set of dies for my ppc .

In terms of custom or not .

From my limited experience there is no measurable gain from them .
My custom dies fit so tight that they have a vacuum and when seating bullets I have remove the seating  stem and reinsert it to use it as a air compressor to shoot the loaded round out .

Even with these very tight tolerance  my concentricity still remains 0.002” and under .

No different than my other die sets .


Arbour press or not ....

Arbour press  solely because it is a portable solution to reloading .
And perhaps when seating bullets the inline type have a slight edge on screw in .

I use a K&M arbour press , I bought that brand because it was available and looks nice .
It is not the one I wanted though , I wanted the 21’st century long arm model as it is leaver driven and dose not have the rack and piñon of the other brands .


You mentioned Lee dies in your post .
Lee makes a collect neck sizing die that works really well .
The other dies are pretty crap .

Excluding smartreloader lee is the bottom end of the reloading market excluding a few little gems like the collet die and the powder thrower I mentioned to you previously.





Short of the long .

Buy a quality brand and more importantly what is available.
More often than not a availability governs a lot of your purchasing when sourcing this stuff .