Is it worth it to get carbite dies for 44 mag or just regular steel?

My experience with no lube carbite expander buttons for rifle is a joke still gotta lube

I have a couple of carbide dies for 9mm and 40 S&W. It seems to work just fine and is probably due to the straight wall design and shorter length of these cases when compared to rifle cases. If you are going to be shooting/reloading larger quantities of this caliber.... seems like it's worth the extra $$

RCBS makes tungsten carbide pistol dies, well worth the money, no lubing brass. Other brands are not tungsten,
Redding and Hornady are coated Titanium Nitrate.

I'd absolutely say get good quality CARBIDE dies for any straight wall calibre you can where this is an option. Your reloading will be so much cleaner as no messing with case lube.

Until the handgun ban in the UK I used RCBS carbide 44 Special dies (and I'd advise you too to get SPECIAL and NOT Magnum length) and there were superb.

Really...you will thank ALL who post here advising carbide dies if you get them.

And on eBay? Not that much more than a standard steel set.

I wouldn't buy pistol dies that weren't. I haven't used any of the carbide rifle dies. They all say they still need lube. I haven't tried the carbide expanders so thanks for the heads up.

I buy carbide when ever I can well worth it.

I didn't know that you could buy non-carbide, straight-walled pistol dies these days.

Well, I will buy some RCBS carbide 44 mag dies after shopping, they are only about $47

I was looking at Redding they have steel along with carbide or what ever titianum carbide

I had noticed my only set of pistol dies previously are Redding .45 colt steel ones

Any more pistol dies I buy, ill get the carbide



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Lee 4 die set is $34.99 at Midway, on sale. Regular price is 39.99.

RCBS is more and the crimp die is seperate.

I've used both Lee and RCBS pistol dies with out a problem.

Carbide dies are a goodness. You don't have to lubricate, but they work really smooth if you do.

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Originally posted by 243winxb:
RCBS makes tungsten carbide pistol dies, well worth the money, no lubing brass. Other brands are not tungsten,
Redding and Hornady are coated Titanium Nitrate.

Tungsten carbide (WC) is an inorganic chemical compound containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms. Colloquially, tungsten carbide is often simply called carbide. In its most basic form, it is a fine gray powder, but it can be pressed and formed into shapes for use in industrial machinery, tools, abrasives, as well as jewelry. Tungsten carbide is approximately three times stiffer than steel, with a Young's modulus of approximately 550 GPa,[2] and is much denser than steel or titanium. It is comparable with corundum (α-Al2O3 or sapphire) in hardness and can only be polished and finished with abrasives of superior hardness such as silicon carbide, cubic boron nitride and diamond amongst others, in the form of powder, wheels and compounds.