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<blockquote data-quote="boomtube" data-source="post: 634359" data-attributes="member: 9215"><p><em>"Lyman dies... for handguns and cast bullets. ... I like the way they...open the case body to seat the cast bullet better.."</em></p><p> </p><p>Me too. For all straight walled cases and as an extra option for bottle necks, Lyman uses their "M" two step plus flare expander design which is excellant for both cast and jacketed bullet seating; in the world of conventional dies for either straight wall or bottle neck expanders that's the best design available. I know Redding has copied that expander design for their handgun dies and I think RCBS has recently done so as well. But, other than the M expander, I find no great or consistant funcitonal difference between any brands of conventional dies.</p><p> </p><p>I love to play with my old 40X chambered for the (Walker) 6mm International with an original 2 oz trigger and a 24x Remington target scope in Unertl mounts that I bought from Mike Walker himself. The cartridge is a .250 Savage case sized to .24 and the shoulder set back about .1" so the necks are plenty long. Groups are consistanly at or under 3/8", I don't count the occasional smaller groups as anything but the statistical annomilies they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boomtube, post: 634359, member: 9215"] [I]"Lyman dies... for handguns and cast bullets. ... I like the way they...open the case body to seat the cast bullet better.."[/I] Me too. For all straight walled cases and as an extra option for bottle necks, Lyman uses their "M" two step plus flare expander design which is excellant for both cast and jacketed bullet seating; in the world of conventional dies for either straight wall or bottle neck expanders that's the best design available. I know Redding has copied that expander design for their handgun dies and I think RCBS has recently done so as well. But, other than the M expander, I find no great or consistant funcitonal difference between any brands of conventional dies. I love to play with my old 40X chambered for the (Walker) 6mm International with an original 2 oz trigger and a 24x Remington target scope in Unertl mounts that I bought from Mike Walker himself. The cartridge is a .250 Savage case sized to .24 and the shoulder set back about .1" so the necks are plenty long. Groups are consistanly at or under 3/8", I don't count the occasional smaller groups as anything but the statistical annomilies they are. [/QUOTE]
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