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<blockquote data-quote="H-BAR" data-source="post: 26620" data-attributes="member: 1281"><p>6.5 bandit I love the Hornady dies and have had absolutely no problems with them. I use them for my 25 223and my 300ultra. I would send them back and have Hornady repair them. They are really good about customer satisfaction. I have put a couple thousand rounds through both my 223 and 25-06 dies and both are still like new. </p><p></p><p>Brent I have one belief in bullets and seating depth and here it goes. I generally believe that all bullets will shoot better loaded into the rifling as long as you tailor the powder charge accordingly. I find that my 25 shot TNTs good loaded at the standard length at 3600fps so when loading into the rifling I decreased the charge to get them to 3600fps and it shot even better. </p><p>So far this has been the same for every load that I have done. About the dies I like the Redding dies also but the design of the Hornady expander is much better. I have to leave the lock nut loose on the expander ball on the Redding dies as well as the RCBS </p><p>dies because they are not centered in the die and will cause concentricity problems. Leaving the nut loose lets the ball float some which is more of a bandaid. The collet design of the Hornady dies is the only one that is on center. Now if you could put a Hornady expander in a Redding die that would be something!!!! Reddings inside finish is beautiful. I do know this also that Hornady warranties their dies for life as long as you have not been neglectful. If I had a bad set I would send them back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="H-BAR, post: 26620, member: 1281"] 6.5 bandit I love the Hornady dies and have had absolutely no problems with them. I use them for my 25 223and my 300ultra. I would send them back and have Hornady repair them. They are really good about customer satisfaction. I have put a couple thousand rounds through both my 223 and 25-06 dies and both are still like new. Brent I have one belief in bullets and seating depth and here it goes. I generally believe that all bullets will shoot better loaded into the rifling as long as you tailor the powder charge accordingly. I find that my 25 shot TNTs good loaded at the standard length at 3600fps so when loading into the rifling I decreased the charge to get them to 3600fps and it shot even better. So far this has been the same for every load that I have done. About the dies I like the Redding dies also but the design of the Hornady expander is much better. I have to leave the lock nut loose on the expander ball on the Redding dies as well as the RCBS dies because they are not centered in the die and will cause concentricity problems. Leaving the nut loose lets the ball float some which is more of a bandaid. The collet design of the Hornady dies is the only one that is on center. Now if you could put a Hornady expander in a Redding die that would be something!!!! Reddings inside finish is beautiful. I do know this also that Hornady warranties their dies for life as long as you have not been neglectful. If I had a bad set I would send them back. [/QUOTE]
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