I started out by buying whatever I could find and ended up with Lee, RCBS, Hornady, Pacific and Redding sets. I'm currently trading up to the Redding in existing calibers and only buy Redding for new calibers. RCBS would be my second choice. You would have a hard time giving me any other brand.
Posts: 1372 | Location: USA | Registered: 18 June 2000
My current preference for dies is a combination of Redding body dies with a Lee collet die. The collet die so I don't have to turn necks, like with a bushing die, the body die so I don't have to drag an expander through the neck. JMO, Dutch.
Posts: 4564 | Location: Idaho Falls, ID, USA | Registered: 21 September 2000
I've also tried just about all of them and now I buy the lee deluxe die set if it's available for that caliber. I really like their collet dies and to be honest, I've never been able to tell any difference in quality of ammo produced by lee dies and that of others, the collet die seems to produce better ammo than anything else I've tried. I even shelved a set of redding dies in favor of lee's in the 7mm stw because the redding's kept giving me dimpled case shoulders.
Wilson dies for the bench guns, Forster for the varmint guns, Redding or RCBS all the other rifles and Lee for my handguns. just counted the other day, i was amased that i had 27 differnt sets of dies
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][/QUOTE] I have just about all of them and i think they are all pretty good but have been leaning to the lee dies because they have a nice case and they have a shell holder with them plus if you need to crimp cases that is included in some die sets they have. (good shooting)
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