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Posts: 6653 | Location: Switzerland | Registered: 11 March 2002
Get a Lee Collet die for neck sizing. Get Forster BR or Redding Comp FL dies with their straight-line seaters for "normal" work, they basically duplicate what can be done on true comp dies such as the Wilsons.
No other threaded dies are worth calling "competition".
mho - Anyone can call anything they wish "competion" dies but it is commonly understood to mean dies that do a better job of making concentrict/straight ammo than is possible on more common designs. In effect, it usually means the seater die holds the case and bullet in complete alignment before seating starts. They aren't really made to any better tolerances, it's the design that counts. For threaded dies, only the Forsters and Reddings do that alignment job. A true competition type seater may or may not have a micrometer adjustment head, that adds user convience but does nothing for accuracy.
Posts: 1615 | Location: South Western North Carolina | Registered: 16 September 2005
Redding makes them. I have a set but haven't used the yet. The .223 remington dies are great, I'd expect the same of the .270's. I'd consider the collet dies for neck sizing.
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Posts: 1254 | Location: Norfolk, Va | Registered: 27 December 2003
