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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Kozak" data-source="post: 772270" data-attributes="member: 15130"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I used RCBS since the mid 1970's with good results and did not try other manufactures dies until around 2000. I then bought several sets of Hornady and really like them. I thought I could do better with Redding regular dies since I read so many good things. I bought multiple sets but do not like how they size the cases smaller than others and did not provide any advantage over the regular dies by RCBS, Hornady or Lee. They just cost slightly more. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">However I bought sets of RCBS 22-250 and 270 WBY dies about three years ago and have been disappointed in the case neck runout after sizing and bullet runout after seating. The 270 WBY dies would take a case with almost no runout and totally ruin it. This was the worst set I have ever had.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">After years of looking at the Forester dies I final ordered a set of Forester dies for the 270 WBY, WOW! I was imediately impressed with the smoothness and quality. The 270 WBY is a custom barrel by Holland and when I was done sizing the cases the neck runout is almost zero and seated runout is well under 0.002. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">As funds allow I am slowly replacing all of my main hunting rifle dies sets with Forester. They all seem to work great but after using about 5 different Forester dies sets now I truly would recommend them over all the other off the shelf brands. I am just to cheap to try the Redding Comp because they Forester is so outstanding.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Kozak, post: 772270, member: 15130"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]I used RCBS since the mid 1970's with good results and did not try other manufactures dies until around 2000. I then bought several sets of Hornady and really like them. I thought I could do better with Redding regular dies since I read so many good things. I bought multiple sets but do not like how they size the cases smaller than others and did not provide any advantage over the regular dies by RCBS, Hornady or Lee. They just cost slightly more. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]However I bought sets of RCBS 22-250 and 270 WBY dies about three years ago and have been disappointed in the case neck runout after sizing and bullet runout after seating. The 270 WBY dies would take a case with almost no runout and totally ruin it. This was the worst set I have ever had.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]After years of looking at the Forester dies I final ordered a set of Forester dies for the 270 WBY, WOW! I was imediately impressed with the smoothness and quality. The 270 WBY is a custom barrel by Holland and when I was done sizing the cases the neck runout is almost zero and seated runout is well under 0.002. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]As funds allow I am slowly replacing all of my main hunting rifle dies sets with Forester. They all seem to work great but after using about 5 different Forester dies sets now I truly would recommend them over all the other off the shelf brands. I am just to cheap to try the Redding Comp because they Forester is so outstanding.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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