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Hornady Versus Redding dies
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<blockquote data-quote="Rflshootr" data-source="post: 2203240" data-attributes="member: 10284"><p>If I was going to buy a set of less expensive standard dies, I'd pick RCBS over Hornady any day. I've had 5 sets of Hornady dies and I had to polish every one of the FL sizers because the finish was terrible. So terrible that I had an extreme amount of pressure to get the case in the die in some instances. Redding or Forster is the "go to" in the next price bracket. I even tempted fate and bought a Hornady super dooper Match Grade bushing dies for my 6BR. Not only did it need the same polishing, but the spent primers would stick to the decapping pin once they were out of the case. Then when you pulled the case from the die, the primer would slightly re-seat itself just enough that you couldn't get the case out of the shellholder. Talk about a pain! They replaced the decapping rod and pin and still the same problem. The design is poor in that the decapping rod floats between two snap rings that hold it in place. I finally had to make a new decapping rod ala RCBS style and a new cap that it threads into, and waaallaaaa.....problem went away immediately. Just saying. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rflshootr, post: 2203240, member: 10284"] If I was going to buy a set of less expensive standard dies, I'd pick RCBS over Hornady any day. I've had 5 sets of Hornady dies and I had to polish every one of the FL sizers because the finish was terrible. So terrible that I had an extreme amount of pressure to get the case in the die in some instances. Redding or Forster is the "go to" in the next price bracket. I even tempted fate and bought a Hornady super dooper Match Grade bushing dies for my 6BR. Not only did it need the same polishing, but the spent primers would stick to the decapping pin once they were out of the case. Then when you pulled the case from the die, the primer would slightly re-seat itself just enough that you couldn't get the case out of the shellholder. Talk about a pain! They replaced the decapping rod and pin and still the same problem. The design is poor in that the decapping rod floats between two snap rings that hold it in place. I finally had to make a new decapping rod ala RCBS style and a new cap that it threads into, and waaallaaaa.....problem went away immediately. Just saying. 🙄 [/QUOTE]
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