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Do I really need Competition Dies sets to start?
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1176783" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I'm willing to go against the grain here and say go for the better dies, I like the Redding Type S 2 die sets for cost effectiveness while getting everything you need. Bushing dies are so nice so your not over working the necks and getting the neck tension dialed in regardless of neck thickness. Having the micrometer top seater is also very nice, I set them up so the numbers face me and zero is just touching the lands so I can just dial in the number I want and get it, for seating depth tests it's huge to just dial in each number needed and hit it not dancing around till you get it like a regular seater with just a stem. </p><p>Every load and every shooter can take advantage of better dies, more consistent neck tension over more firings and hitting seating depths easily and repeatably are never a bad thing, precision shooting should be a part of hunting, I don't see any reason to separate them. </p><p>Saying benchrest shooters are the only one's that will see the need for quality dies just does not wash, in fact it's just the opposite, I set up my BR gun for one lot of bullets and brass, everything is turned to specs my resizing die for my BR gun is just a cheap custom honed die cause I change the necks, my seating die is just a cheap wilson with a reamer punched into it, I have far less in loading my BR rifle than I do any long range hunting rifle I have, where I will try different brass or have to change neck tension on one bullet from another, I will be dialing in seating depth for more than one bullet more than likely and I'll be looking for lower ES cause I'll be shooting farther than my BR rifle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1176783, member: 13632"] I'm willing to go against the grain here and say go for the better dies, I like the Redding Type S 2 die sets for cost effectiveness while getting everything you need. Bushing dies are so nice so your not over working the necks and getting the neck tension dialed in regardless of neck thickness. Having the micrometer top seater is also very nice, I set them up so the numbers face me and zero is just touching the lands so I can just dial in the number I want and get it, for seating depth tests it's huge to just dial in each number needed and hit it not dancing around till you get it like a regular seater with just a stem. Every load and every shooter can take advantage of better dies, more consistent neck tension over more firings and hitting seating depths easily and repeatably are never a bad thing, precision shooting should be a part of hunting, I don't see any reason to separate them. Saying benchrest shooters are the only one's that will see the need for quality dies just does not wash, in fact it's just the opposite, I set up my BR gun for one lot of bullets and brass, everything is turned to specs my resizing die for my BR gun is just a cheap custom honed die cause I change the necks, my seating die is just a cheap wilson with a reamer punched into it, I have far less in loading my BR rifle than I do any long range hunting rifle I have, where I will try different brass or have to change neck tension on one bullet from another, I will be dialing in seating depth for more than one bullet more than likely and I'll be looking for lower ES cause I'll be shooting farther than my BR rifle. [/QUOTE]
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